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

childish handwriting: “My mom can fix anything except when the VCR eats our tape. Then she says bad words.”

I laugh every time.

Then I cry.

Both feel correct.

People ask sometimes whether I regret not seeing sooner. Whether I wish I had pushed harder at Christmas. Whether I feel guilty for not forcing my way into her life the moment her voice started sounding continue reading …