A-month-after bury*ng my husband, I boarded a six-hour flight with our two children, hoping a visit with my mother might help us breathe again. Instead, the stranger beside me decided to judge my parenting before the plane had even left the ground.
A month ago, I buried my husband, Mark.
He was thirty-seven, funny, stubborn, and certain he would outlive everyone. Cancer took him in nine months.
When my mother invited the children and me to stay with her so I could escape the nightmare, even briefly, I agreed.
