She Tried To Dump Four Kids At His Airport Apartment At Midnight

I had built an entire career in the sky without ever knowing that particular fact about him. It landed somewhere strange in my chest, not quite grief, not quite recognition, something adjacent to both.

“I have to go, Dad,” I said finally. “I’ve got a flight to Chicago in three hours.”

“Fly safe,” he said, the same thing he’d said to me before every trip continue reading …