I’m not home, as it happens, nor is he when I return his call, and this goes on for a few weeks more. Our game of phone tag lasts so long that he eventually stops identifying himself, and all he says on the answering machine is “Bah! I wish you had a cell phone,” or “If a cow laughed would milk c...
It felt like Lee didn’t want to talk, like he was nudging me away because we might be headed in separate directions this time tomorrow. It might take me a while to find my dad, but when I did I wanted Lee to stay too. Sandhorn wasn’t too far from Lake Superior, and on the way in we passed lots of...
There were maybe a dozen parishioners assembled in the first few pews, and most of them were in their forties or fifties. Tess went down on her knees, clasped her hands, and bent her head. I just sat there waiting for the service to start, staring up at the half-size crucifix suspended above the ...