“Want to take a ride?” my mother asks. It’s past eleven, and I’m watching David Letterman on the small TV in my bedroom, the one without a remote. I only finished my homework a few minutes ago, during one of the commercial breaks after tonight’s top-ten list. We don’t have […]
Fearful Symmetries | Jeff McLaughlin
My father rarely raised his voice. Growing up the eldest of nine in a house with only four bedrooms left him reserved, thoughtful, and inclined towards subtlety. He used a modest inheritance, the only financial help he ever received from his family, to purchase a sailboat, in part because it […]