Every Friday at 6 p.m. my daughter called me without fail, and the one week my phone stayed silent I drove to her house and heard a sound from upstairs that turned our quiet Tennessee life into something I still can’t fully talk about

to the source.”

But what do you do when the connection goes dead? When there’s no current flowing, no signal coming through?

I set the phone back in its cradle one last time.

Tomorrow, I told myself. I’d call again tomorrow morning first thing. And if she didn’t answer, then I’d figure something out.

But standing there in my kitchen at midnight, staring continue reading …