My Daughter Found Her Passport Case Empty At The Airport And Grandma Smiled Like She Had Won

purple palm trees she had drawn all those months ago, counting down to a trip that never happened. And then she said, so quietly I almost missed it, “Or maybe we could make a new one.”

I looked at her.

She shrugged, shy and hopeful at the same time. “Not with Grandma. Just us.”

When Brian got home that night and I told him, he did not hesitate for even continue reading …