I Should Have Known

It was always thus

Photo by Mhmd Sedky on Unsplash

I did not want to admit that things would not go as planned. Especially to myself. But I did know. How could I not? The plans had been made by my family back home. When they are involved, nothing ever goes as planned. Still, I was about to spend a considerable amount of time and money to travel in support of a memorial for a family member I had never been especially close to. I should have at…