True story. At the trust meeting, my daughter said: “She has no say.” I reached into my bag and…

came the way it always does here, reluctantly at first and then all at once, and I planted the front beds with the same bulbs I plant every year, the ones Raymond had bought in bulk from a hardware store 37 years ago and said very seriously that they were a long-term investment.

He had been right about that.

My son came to visit in April.

He stayed four continue reading …