Yesterday, i once again was looking for something i had misplaced and forgotten where. Such has become a daily tradition around here, sometimes more than once a day. It’s so often, i no longer cuss when it happens.

Okay, okay, sometimes i still let the sailor talk rip.

This time it was different. i looked in the usual places, considered where i had been, and found it on the coffee table in the living room.

As i reached for it, a voice came into my head that said, “Right where it has always been.”

That is something my mother, former wife, and current wife would say to me. They have engrained it into my brain. They didn’t even have to say it.