Driving My Daughter to Visit a University (or, An Unfillable Space)

We listen to a book on tape for a few hours, until our brains need a rest, then take turns queuing up songs on Spotify. I bring my old school favorites—Tom Petty, acoustic Eric Clapton, The Innocence Mission—and she slips in a few of our more recent obsessions, musicians like Jason Isbell and Amos Lee and WILLIS. We sing together as the miles whir benea…