My Mother Smiled While My Sister Gave Away My Home, Until I Reminded Them Whose Name Was on It

sign-off across fifteen years. And a very long time ago, back when I was that nineteen-year-old apprentice, Walt taught me a small trick that I have used ever since. He told me to end the capital M of my last name with a long upward hook, a deliberate flourish that rises above the line, so that no one can ever go back and add a word or a line above continue reading …