There’s a specific memory I keep coming back to. My father, standing at the kitchen counter after dinner, jaw tight, saying nothing. Something had gone sideways that day—a bill, a comment, something ...
We were sitting in a four-season sunporch in a quiet residential neighborhood of Kalamazoo, where I grew up, when the drugs kicked in. My 78-year-old father, wobbling to his feet, fidgeted for a tub ...
Doing the same thing over and over can get so old that you just stop. So, what would you do if a small misunderstanding with your father turned into an awkward game of passive aggression on his part?