When I Told Grandma Ruth My College Fund Was Only $214 She Asked What Channel My Mom Watches at Six

years old and old enough to understand what she was saying without fully understanding why she was saying it.

I sat in the parking lot until the car got too hot to sit in, and then I drove home.

My brother Tyler’s truck was in the driveway. It was new, or new enough, a late-model pickup that still had that unscratched quality of something that has not continue reading …