The Day My Daughter Told the Doctor to Let Me Go While I Lay There Unable to Speak

on my tray table and looked out the window at the gray Oregon sky and thought about all the things I had taught, over thirty-one years in the classroom. I had taught children that words matter. That the ones you choose reveal the ones you mean. That saying something out loud makes it more real than thinking it, and that some things, once said, cannot continue reading …