The Candle That Cost The Farm
The Farm Outside Sioux Falls I married into land before I married into a family. That’s how it felt the first time Ken drove me… Read more
The Signature My Son In Law Wanted
The Closing I signed the papers on a Tuesday morning at a lawyer’s office off the interstate loop, wearing the only sport coat I own… Read more
The Baby in My Son’s Boathouse
There was a dock in Elk Lake that my father in law poured concrete pilings for by hand in 1961, and a boathouse loft above… Read more
The Bride Who Lifted Her Veil
A Wedding I Almost Did Not Attend I almost did not drive up to Louisville that Saturday. I sat in my kitchen in Elizabethtown for… Read more
The Consent Form My Grandfather Signed
The Rain The wipers on my little sedan could not keep up with it. I remember that more than I remember the truck itself, the… Read more
The Lodge My Mother Left Me
The Text That Came With My Coffee I was sitting at the counter of the Pinecrest Diner on Route 131, waiting on a short stack… Read more