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

with her friends.

“You okay?” I asked.

He nodded. “Just thinking.”

“About what?”

He smiled, and there was something a little sad in it. “About how much peace costs.”

I followed his gaze out to the yard. Ellie was wearing a lopsided birthday crown and shouting, “My body, my rules!” because one of her friends had come at her with a fistful of frosting. The continue reading …