At My Father’s Ceremony They Said I Could Not Do Anything Right Until I Walked In And Smiled

“You complicated that at every point.”

I almost smiled.

“I wasn’t trying to.”

“That made it worse,” he said. “The not trying. The things that came to you because you worked and were capable. She would have understood ambition. She would have understood competition. What she couldn’t understand was someone who simply was the thing without appearing to continue reading …