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

at night is one of the few completely honest rituals left. You attend to the water. You attend to the cups. You do not have to perform anything while you wait.

I set his in front of him and sat down with mine.

The kitchen was the one room in the house that still felt like my mother. Evelyn had replaced the curtains and the dish towels and the mat by continue reading …