*Lucas*

I spent most of my morning at my mother’s house. I had promised her that I would help her with some yard work that desperately needed to be attended to, and I was not a son who ever broke a promise to his mother.

Mostly it was mowing the lawn and weed eating–nothing too strenuous. The work certainly didn’t take enough out of me so I couldn’t go back to the resort and do my daily routine there, though today would only be half a day. My mom was ...