The night before our first real road trip in 30 years, I got an email: CANCELED. I called my husband. ‘What happened?’ He said, ‘I canceled it. My sister needs you to watch her kids.’ I went quiet. ‘You canceled my vacation without asking me?’ He sighed. ‘It’s just a trip. Family comes first.’ So I asked: ‘THEN WHY AREN’T YOU STAYING?’
The night before our first real road trip in thirty years, an email flashed across my screen with one brutal word: CANCELED.…