The school called. “Your daughter hasn’t been pick…

pitch. Client dinner. Hotel check-in. Red-eye return.

I remembered that trip in my bones because it was the first major commission I landed after moving to Portland and starting over.

I had the flight confirmations in my old email. The hotel receipts. Photos from a rooftop dinner.

I was not in a hospital.

I was not giving birth.

I was not anywhere within continue reading …