My 9 Year Old Found a Note Telling Us to Move Out Before Christmas So I Packed in Silence

steady work. The hallway below the apartment smelled every morning of cut flower stems and wet leaves from the shop opening early, and Jessica stood in the kitchen with her coffee some mornings and thought that it was a strange and good smell to wake up to, something growing in December, something tended.

Grace began sleeping better. She still asked continue reading …