Frustrated and cleaning madly didn’t help you much. There was always more for you to clean or so you believed. Dirty filthy people populated your world and you felt the need to clean up after every one of them.

Greasy eggs and sausage in the all night diner. Snowed in at the truck stop in Toledo Ohio. We slept in the bunk of the truck. Tangled in my dad’s jacket sleeves. No cover.