My Husband Cut Our Grocery Budget to Eighty Dollars Until His Phone Connected to the Tablet

For several seconds, I kept staring at the number, waiting for the missing digits to return. They did not. Available balance, twelve dollars and forty three cents. I refreshed the page. The same number appeared.

On the stove, a pot of rice was beginning to boil over. My seven year old daughter, June, sat at the kitchen table drawing flowers around the continue reading …