I Came Home From Work and Found My Baby in a Condition I Will Never Forget – The Archivist

absence, not loneliness, but the quality of silence that belongs to a space that is entirely itself. I cooked what I wanted and ate when I wanted and left the herringbone backsplash exactly as it was, because I had tiled it myself over a long holiday weekend and it was well done and it belonged there.

I sat at the island on an evening in late December continue reading …