I Woke Up From Surgery Alone And Learned My Children Had Been Left On A Porch

resent Amber for this exactly. What I resent is the underlying math of it, the fact that our parents’ capacity for presence is apparently a fixed and limited resource, and Amber holds first claim on it through sheer proximity, personality, and a lifelong habit of simply asking for what she wants.

My father is Ray Walsh, sixty five and retired, and within continue reading …