I called Mom while I was shopping and asked, “Should I bring chocolate cake or apple pie for Christmas?” – Welcome

present in the specific way that children are present when they have decided to show up for you, with their whole uncomplicated selves, without agenda or strategy, just there.

And then she had walked into that room and said the thing none of the adults had found the words for.

He didn’t just choose my mom. He chose me too.

Which was, when you stripped continue reading …