My Son Told Me Not to Come for Christmas but Two Days Later My Phone Would Not Stop Ringing

too,” he said. “I’m not asking you to. I just needed to see you.”

“Then stay for dinner,” I said.

He did.

The foreclosure was finalized in March. Michael moved into a studio apartment on the north side of town and started working weekend landscaping jobs to clear the debt, which he approached with the focused, unglamorous determination of a man who has continue reading …