Alison Swihart has lived in the very middle of the United States for 60+ years, currently in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a wannabe writer and has been working on her first book for at least ten years, whose working title is “The Worst Christian Novel Ever Written”. She has two daughters, both of whom are married. Her younger daughter and husband live nearby, and her older daughter, husband and their three children live far, far away, in Ireland.
It was Christmas Eve. I sat on the floor next to my 10-year-old grandson in his family’s near empty apartment to say goodbye. They were leaving early Christmas morning....