Are you a Carry-on?

She had a nice way of characterizing her past relationships as either carry-ons or checked baggage: The carry-ons were brief ‘trips’ that only lasted a short time and then home again. Checked baggage were the big ones — full of essential things you loved and didn’t want to lose. Things that wouldn’t fit in any overhead rack or under a seat, so they had to go in the belly of the plane and be claimed at a far destination..

Are you a Carry-on? was originally published in Jonathan Carroll on Mediu...