Writer Wednesday

Using your secrets.

Margaret Atwood has a secret.

I sent my daughter off this morning back to college. We like to cut things close. We got up at 3:40 a.m. for a 5:30 flight. According to Google Maps, LAX was a mere 24-minute drive at that time of morning. If we left at exactly 3:59 or 4, we’d be fine. I wouldn’t be nervous at all.

Around 4:03 or 4:04, I heard footsteps upst…