For Also Showing Up to Work as My Staff
Washing dishes, pouring drinks, making funny side comments, demonstrating his pan tossing techniques, and then other days making dinners when I’m still at the computer trying to be “almost done,” running errands for me when I’m in a time bind, making me laugh, inspiring me with flutes of his incomparable champagne, blessing all our times together by cutting roses from our garden for every room in the house…
