On Christmas Day My Husband Yelled at an Empty Table Without Knowing What Was Coming

childhood I was too exhausted to be fully present for, the version of myself I might have been if I had left at forty or even fifty, the mornings I woke up already braced for the day’s first disappointment.

But there is a thing I have learned about late arrivals, which is that they are not the same as not arriving. The woman who left that courthouse continue reading …