After My Husband Left on a Business Trip, My Child Said We Shouldn’t Go Home. I Listened

this was just another Thursday. Another business trip. Another three days of single-parenting and microwaved dinners and bedtime stories read in the voice I use when I’m trying not to fall asleep mid-sentence.

Airport goodbyes are supposed to be simple, predictable even. A quick kiss that tastes like the mint gum he always chews before flights. A reminder continue reading …