The Things We Can't Control
My husband and I have a fundamental disagreement about the little gas icon that pops up on the dashboard when you are running low on gas. He sees it as a recommendation to get to a gas station and fill up – at some point, in the near future – but only when it is convenient. I see it as a flashing, migraine-causing light – an urgent request, a fire to be quenched. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, like is so often the case. On Friday afternoon I happened to be dri