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. …

grandmother left us. I aired out the upstairs guest rooms the children always claimed as theirs and put fresh flannel sheets on the beds. I bought Raymond the model airplane kit he’d been talking about in September and a hardback mystery novel for Susan because she had recently informed me, with great seriousness, that she was “done with childish books.continue reading …