From the road
Stories
Hotels, highways, sidelines, drive-thrus—and the families who keep showing up.
The Bubble Parents Won. We Should Have Brought Dad’s Fishing Waders.
A sunny Saturday, a soaked soccer Sunday, and the parents who won the sideline weather battle—from the ankles up.
Day 14
The Thai place knows my order. The Thai place asks if I want my “usual.” The Thai place asked tonight if everything was okay at home. It is Day 14. Two consecutive weeks. The kitchen has been used twice in fourteen days, both times to boil water for pasta that nobody finished because we left…
Two States Away
We left at 4:47 AM on a Friday in January for a tournament in Hershey, Pennsylvania. That sentence used to sound insane to me. I would read it on somebody else’s Facebook post and think: that family is broken. Something has gone wrong over there. They have lost the plot. Now I write the sentence…