My Son Cut Me From The Wedding Guest List Then Sent Me The Bill

is not how families work.

She would have been right.

That is not how families work.

What I held out for was not a seat at a particular table in a particular castle. I held out for my son to choose me. To choose, consciously and with some cost to himself, to include his father in the beginning of his married life.

He chose.

That is what the Tuesdays in Almonte continue reading …