You Don’t Need the Same Politics to Surf Together

About a year ago, I told my brother-in-law that I was turning in a new draft of the book I’d written about us.

“It’s still mostly about surfing together,” I said. “But I’m also going to talk about the times things between us got tense.”

There was a brief silence.

“Oh,” he said, a touch warily. “Are you going to write about the frozen pizza?”