I"D BEEN ENJOYING watching the snow falling through the family room window when a car door closed. A young man headed up our walkway. Not recognizing either the car or the young man, I opened the door as he took the four steps two at a time. I hadn"t had a visitor in a while, and certainly not someone I didn"t know. I opened the storm door and asked him what he wanted.
I"D BEEN ENJOYING“Ms. Russell, I"m Eric Silver. Mr. R was my history teacher. I"m home on break and I want to talk with him about a project I"m working on.”
I told him that my husband wasn"t at home.
“Will he be home soon? I can come back later. It"s about time travel, Ms. Russell. I"ve found a way to create a new portal.”
I remember those words clearly because my knees buckled and I grabbed the door frame to keep from f
