Chapter 21
When I peer through the plastic sleeve that contains my Baltimore Sun as it makes the short trip from my front stoop — or the nearby bushes — to my kitchen table each morning, I rarely see good news above the fold, but Saturday’s paper was the happy exception.
Madonna and Child. That’s what ran through my mind as I smiled at the picture of Emily and Tim with a heart so full of joy that it was in real danger of bursting. Emily wore a beatific smile, and her son? The photographer had captured him just at the moment he’d thrown back his head and laughed.
When I got to the kitchen, Paul already sat at the table, shoveling a bowl of cold cereal a spoonful at a time into his mouth. With Chloe and Jake back home with their parents, their family once again complete, it was our first
