My Mom Skipped My Housewarming for My Sister’s Move and a Week Later My Phone Wouldn’t Stop Ringing After a TV Episode Aired

garage table still sits in my office. Its legs are still uneven. Its edges are still rough. When I run my fingers along its surface I can still feel the places where the sandpaper caught, the corner where something took a bite out of the wood, the general improbability of the thing given who built it and with what. I keep it because it is the truest continue reading …