I Returned To My Lake House And Found It Being Torn Apart By My Own Family So I Showed The One Document They Never Expected

moment looking at the east side of the cottage.

The entire sunroom wall was gone.

Not damaged. Not partially dismantled in the careful way of renovation work that intends to replace what it removes. Gone. The framing was exposed, the insulation visible in patches, a blue tarp flapping where the glass used to be. My sunroom, the room where I had sat in continue reading …