Kaitlin Barker Davis is a writer from Portland, Oregon. Her essays on travel, motherhood and place have appeared in Nowhere Magazine, Narratively, Motherwell Magazine and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University, and you can find her at www.kaitlinbarkerdavis.com.
The future perfect tense indicates an action that is certain to occur. But when the future is not perfect or certain, the conditional “would” is more appropriate.