Bear with me. This will make sense in a moment. I got a new car this year. Gently used, actually. I turned in the keys to the family van that had been mine, a well-worn 2002 Honda Odyssey. Sally wisely declared that at 61 it was time for me to have a bit more manly […]

This morning we were sick together. I heard you at five stepping down the last four wooden steps in the dark, barefoot and concerned, dragging your striped blanket. Something wasn’t right. You knew it. You crawled in bed beside me, buried the fevered weight of your forehead into the white softs of my inner arms, […]