The Default Paterfamilias (Voices Vol. XLVI, 2024-25)

“It’s gonna be OK,” I repeated into the phone.

Somewhere outside of Ann Arbor, on a highway going north, my voice played over the speakers of a brand-new Subaru.

A Subaru.

The kind of highly rated, no-nonsense foreign SUV that, in my youth, I could have never imagined my parents owning… [READ FULL PIECE HERE]