I'm the Glue
The Year Everything Broke, and I Held It Together Anyway
"Folks look at a night like this and think it's a sad picture… It don't feel that way from in here." In one stretch of weeks, Cole Merrick buried the father he'd rescued from a nursing home, lost the two incomes that died with him, and watched his last running truck die of a cracked block — with the storage meter running. The lawyers came.
The courts couldn't help. Bankruptcy turned him away for being too poor to qualify.
What was left: five acres in the Arkansas pines, a wife who ends every call "love you bad," a yard full of animals somebody's got to feed, one fast laptop — and a man who's spent his whole life being the glue. I'm the Glue is the funny, faithful, dead-honest story of a year at the bottom: porch cash drops and gentle-turn routes, grass money and garlic dog food, four apps at once at one in the morning, and a to-do list with "water the garden" and "rebuke the depression a
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