You don’t have to say I love you to say I love you,” you said with a shrug. “All you have to do is say my name and I know.”…”Can’t you hear it?” you said....

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone…a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might...

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father’s waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the...