“Can you do me a teensy-tiny favor?” my wife asked in that little girl voice she uses whenever she’s about to ask me a gigantic, humongous favor.
“Sure,” I said, knowing that ultimately I had no choice.
Con Chapman
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Con Chapman is a Boston writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Boston Globe, among other publications. His biography of Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington’s alto saxophonist, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.