My Son Did Not Know I Owned The Law Firm Where His Wife Had Just Made Partner

a gift and I gave it and I meant it.

Still, I am sixty-seven years old. I have learned a few things.

One of them is this: a woman who has been called a sweet little old lady one too many times is allowed to keep one drawer that nobody else has the key to.

I have thought about that night often, in the quiet hours when I sit at my kitchen table with my continue reading …