Author Archives: Jack

When my wife was pregnant, I swear not an hour passed without my dad bragging about becoming a grandpa. Now that his granddaughter is here, the only thing he gets to hold are photos—and it breaks my heart. If he can resist coming inside to hold his first grandchild, I know the rest of us […]

Picked out a cake at Meijer. Asked bakery-looking-employee if she could write on it for me. She said she would, and after a long time, she came and presented me with this cake. I looked her In the eye and said thank you before I even looked at the cake. After looking, I nervously laughed […]

The sound of her stepfather’s footsteps in the hallway would freeze young Sally Field in place. Even as a child, she could sense the air shifting when he was near. There was no shouting, no slamming of doors, but a quiet, insidious discomfort that wrapped itself around her childhood like a fog. In the silence […]