I Found My Parents Freezing In The Dark And Realized The Golden Years Are A Myth

his chair and Mom’s recliner. I pulled a quilt over all of us.

“Remember the blizzard of ’96?” I asked.

Dad smiled in the candlelight. “We lost power for three days. You were just a kid. We played Scrabble by the fire.”

“I won,” Mom piped up. It was the most lucid she had been all day.

“You cheated,” Dad teased. ” ‘Qi’ is not a word.”

“It is too,” she said.continue reading …