At a small Chicago clinic, an Alaska nurse called about my daughter and said, “Your son-in-law hasn’t been here.” I booked the first flight north without crying, and by dawn, his Bahamas honeymoon was no longer the worst thing I’d found. – News

put in my earbuds without turning anything on.

All the way to Seattle, I replayed my last visit with Emily.

Christmas at my house.

She had arrived alone. Derek had stayed in Alaska because, according to Emily, “year-end audits are chaos” and his office could not spare him. He worked in wealth management in Anchorage, a job that seemed to consist largely continue reading …