Grief is funny. Recently my husband let it slip that for our whole relationship he hasn’t understood my hanging onto this whole “Silas thing” – his exact words were something like “whenever you brought it up I would think’ ‘really? again?’…” and I nodded sagely even as my face grew hot with humiliation because we [...]
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My grandfather died this morning. Today was the day I had planned to go see him. Today was also the school baby shower. yay. A woman who is at least half my size in girth and is due in 4 weeks (I am due in eight) pretended to commiserate with me about how incredibly huge [...]
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Miles once flew to Oregon from North Carolina with a saddlebag and a bike as checked baggage. The way he told it, when he got to the airport on the other end, he retrieved his bike from baggage claim, put it together in the airport, and rode out the [...]
