True story. I cooked, cleaned & paid bills in my daughter’s house. She said, “If you can’t work, what’s the point of you being here?”

I think she was also surprised in the way people are surprised when they’ve been so deep inside their own exhaustion that they couldn’t see what was right in front of them.

We are still repairing things.

That is the honest answer.

We have Sunday dinners now at Vera’s or sometimes at Lauren’s.

And I come as a grandmother and a guest, not as a housekeeper.continue reading …