My Father Texted Me at 2:43 A.M. to Say I Was Dead to Him

husband telling me I don’t have a family.

The Morning My Mother Found Out About the Salon

My mother’s salon had a name I’d always found embarrassing. “Donna’s Hair & Co.” She was Donna. There was no Co. There never had been. The Co. was me.

The landlord was a man named Greg Pruitt who owned half a strip mall in Skokie and didn’t care who paid him continue reading …