Sometimes they lasted three minutes because one of them was rushing to a study group.

I began taking a ceramics class.

I joined a volunteer literacy program at the library and finally used a week of vacation to visit the coast with Elise.

At first I felt guilty whenever I did something simply because I wanted to.

Then I remembered what I had told the boys about growing up and leaving home: love was not a tether.

Brian kept contact with them in ways they had chosen.