My Doctor Said Stay in Bed. I Was Already on the Pacific Coast Highway. When I Got to the House I’d Built for My Parents’ Anniversary, My Brother-in-Law Was Evicting Them. I Laughed in His Face and Said: “You Have Exactly One Hour to Leave.”

that shouting would give Derek a stage and Derek was the kind of person who performed best on stages. We walked in with quiet authority, which is a different thing from loud authority and considerably harder to dismiss.

Derek tried to puff up. He used the word rights. He used the word family. He was building toward something, the kind of speech that continue reading …