Bar Harbor.”

Jane texted Betty questions from time to time. Things her own mother wouldn’t know or care about, or else things she didn’t feel like asking her own mother.

hardest part of every day now. Waking up. Remembering where she was and why.

driftwood sign

That she had been fired. Well, put on leave was how Melissa phrased it on that last, awful day,

Money was one reason why Jane was scared to have kids.

Betty no longer recognized her husband, children, and grandchildren.

about giving some early college exposure to high-achieving, at-risk kids,

Catholic Church was the one thing Jane and her grandmother ever argued about.