Little invited herself to my house for Labor Day Weekend. It had that feeling, you know? The one you get when someone is making a trip to tell you something in person. I mean, why else make a 5+ hours drive with a 7 month old in holiday traffic? For
Part I here To distract Middle, I got her talking about this year’s Christmas vacation. I’d already agreed to see her over the holiday, but also wanted to take my kids to the East Coast. Thirty years ago, our dad did his residency at Johns Hopkins. For two years we
A few days after they were robbed, I went up to see my parents. A planned visit, but we’d just made the same trip a few weeks prior. It left me with a strange, cuckoo-clock feeling. Mom seems almost energized by the drama. Perhaps having a defined villain and sense
The person my mom hired to come in for 4-hour stints to watch my dad? She stole cash out of my dad’s wallet, my mom’s wedding band, the watch Dad gave Mom as an engagement present, all my mom’s jewelry, a gun, and quite a bit of silver cutlery and
I spent a few days with Little and her new baby. Little is 8 and 1/2 years younger than I am. Plus, I left home when I was 14 and she, 5ish. So although I love her like crazy, our relationship has always been weird. We are kind of like