My Eight Year Old Son Was Teased for His Duct Taped Sneakers Then the Principal Called Me One Morning

had given me a look across the pew that said yes I know and also I am not going to say anything, and I had looked back at him and thought about how much I loved that look specifically, how much of our marriage lived in small exchanges like that one. I had no idea I was already in the last weeks of having it to look back at.

Jacob was a firefighter. continue reading …