My Daughter In Law Told Me To Sell The Cabin And Leave The Lake House I Built

of the light go out of the sky over the water. Stars were appearing one at a time, then faster, until the whole sweep of the Milky Way was visible, tilted across the dark above the tree line.

I thought about my father, who had been a patient and accommodating man, and who had died at seventy-one still waiting for the years that were supposed to belong continue reading …