When I Refused To Babysit My Sister’s Child My Parents Turned Against Me But They Forgot Whose Name Was On The House

and the blue flower wallpaper, had not always belonged to my parents outright. What most people in my family did not know, what I had not known myself until about eighteen months earlier, was that my grandmother, my father’s mother, a woman named Ruth who had died when I was fifteen and who had loved me with a plainness and a consistency that was entirely continue reading …