While I Was at Lunch With My Daughter My Neighbor Called and Asked Why Someone Was Loading Boxes From My House

my security code, knew my filing system, felt comfortable enough in my house to spend time searching through thirty-five years of organized documents, and had arranged their plan around a day when I would be elsewhere for a predictable stretch of time.

I sat at my kitchen table that night with a legal pad and my laptop and did what I had done for forty continue reading …