Then and Now

The other night I took my somewhat regular pilgrimage. As a child, from about thirteen to seventeen, I had this regular practice that I did almost every night. My “mother’s” ‘parenting in practice’ was in no small part “You eat with the family or you don’t eat.” I opted to not eat with “the family”. I would then wait until around eleven:thirty or twelve o’clock at night, take five dollars from her…