February 2025

The night of the verdict, I sat down with my husband to play chess. I needed a distraction, something to pull me out of my head. I thought, this will help. It didn’t. I made a few bad moves late in the game, sacrificing pieces for nothing. I saw them too late—too late to take […]

I don’t know why, but I had a feeling about this jury summons. The night before, I was already cranky about going. My husband even checked online, just in case it had been canceled at the last minute. No luck. I had to show up. So at 8 AM on Monday, I dragged myself to