GS-The turkey was still warm when he said it. I had not returned home…

through his nose. Years earlier, that sound would have warned me to soften my words.

I did not soften them.

He surprised me by saying, “Fair enough.”

I sat at the table.

“I kept thinking you were rejecting everything I taught you,” he said.

“I used what you taught me.”

“What do you mean?”

“You told me there was always a reason something stopped working. You continue reading …