There isn’t much useful to say about the last six months except that our house became very quiet.
Margaret had always filled rooms without being loud. She left grocery lists on the refrigerator, folded blankets nobody had asked her to fold, and kept birthday cards in a kitchen drawer because she hated buying them at the last minute.
After she died, I stopped going into certain rooms.
Her sewing room was one of them.
Eventually, I changed it.
That was the room at the end of the hall.
Daniel called me two days after my fall.
“How’s the knee?”
“Still attached.”
“Funny.”
“You asked.”
He was quiet for a moment.
Then:
“What’s in that room, Dad?”
I looked across the living room toward the hallway.
“You called about my knee.”
“Rebecca thinks you might have paperwork in there.”
“What paperwork?”
“I don’t know. Financial stuff. Mom’s things. Maybe the deed.”
I almost laughed.
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