The Cabin My Mother Gave Away
My mother Ives stood in my grandfather’s kitchen four days after his funeral and told me the cabin he built with his own hands in… Read more
The Half Plate She Always Saved
My granddaughter Posy stopped eating exactly halfway through every meal I set in front of her, and for six days I told myself it was… Read more
The Pool Party My Camera Caught
My neighbors threw a Fourth of July pool party in my own backyard while my husband and I were two hours south visiting our daughter,… Read more
The Cabin Deed They Never Checked
These days, when I drive out to the cabin at Tull Lake on a Sunday afternoon, I let myself take the long way around, past… Read more
The Night My Nephew Called Me First
My nephew called me at 1:30 in the morning, and the first thing out of his mouth wasn’t hello. It was, “Aunt Seraphina, please don’t… Read more
The Keys My Sister Got And I Didn’t
The spoon hit the wineglass three times before anybody in that backyard stopped talking. Clink. Clink. Clink. I was standing by the cooler with a… Read more