My Doctor Said Stay in Bed. I Was Already on the Pacific Coast Highway. When I Got to the House I’d Built for My Parents’ Anniversary, My Brother-in-Law Was Evicting Them. I Laughed in His Face and Said: “You Have Exactly One Hour to Leave.”

and the windows and the light. I watched them receive congratulations and hug people and be surrounded by their history, fifty years of it, present in the faces of everyone who had come.

I kept one eye on the driveway.

I knew men like Derek did not leave a situation without attempting to rewrite it. The rewriting was important to them, as important as continue reading …