Table of Memories.

 1.

In the small kitchen, at an even smaller table that has seen meals, warm cans of beer, and long talks, my father negotiates the benefits of a life with him if my mother chooses to return.

The Windsor and Sam Cooke.

1.

It started in school when his father gave him a bunch of old suits he hadn’t used in a long while. It’s also when his father showed him how to tie a tie and how to shine his own shoes.