CNU-My daughter-in-law said Christmas would be easier if I stayed away, and my son did not even raise his eyes to defend me. So I stayed home, alone, exactly as requested. …

yes before I had time to think. He had his mother’s kindness and my talent for rationalization. A dangerous combination in a man who wanted badly to be loved.

The first year of their marriage was a long education in small humiliations dressed as logistics. Linda would suggest dinner in Sacramento and then “forget” to tell me it had been moved to some continue reading …