I Came Home From Teaching All Day to Find a Lock on My Own Pantry

a heart attack while watering his geraniums on a Tuesday morning in September. One moment he was alive. Then the neighbor found him in the garden and called an ambulance, and by the time I got to the hospital he was already gone. Thirty-eight years of marriage and it ended in a garden with a watering can still in his hand. For months afterward I couldn’t continue reading …