Creative Space

While in Denver, I met my parents’ best friends from their youth, which was pleasant, but awkward:

1. “How are your parents?”
2. “Divorced.”
3. “Oh. Well, is your mother okay?”
4. “Well, she just had a heart attack, but it was a little one.”
5. “Oh. Are you working?"
6. “I just wrote a book making light of war crimes.”
7. “Oh.”