My Son Told Me Not to Come on the Trip I Paid For

for ten minutes after.

What Lorraine Would Have Done

People keep asking me that. Donnie asked. Barb Sheehan asked, gently. Even the Chase case manager asked, in a roundabout way: “Do you have family support during this process?”

Lorraine would have known before me. That’s the truth. She read people the way I read circuit diagrams. She’d have clocked Danielle continue reading …