Three Cups of Morning Coffee at the Oakhaven Diner Changed Everything

caught behind the gym.”

Ben set the glasses down on his blotter and leaned back, his chair giving a long, familiar squeak. “Clara is scared, Arthur. When people get scared, they tend to grab the reins twice as hard.”

“It’s my life, Ben,” I said. “I spent forty years teaching high school boys how to behave, and now my own daughter is lecturing me on my continue reading …