Slice of Life

Sunday Grocery List

by Migs Ferrer

For eleven years his wife wrote the Sunday list and he did the buying. Now the mango-covered notebook is four pages from the end, the market has been briefed from beyond, and a seven-year-old auditor has added OOBEY ICE CREAM in pencil, spelling preserved forever. A year of grocery lists that is secretly a book about grief, fatherhood, and the red coffee, NOT the gold. You will laugh, and then somewhere around the tinola you will not.