GS-At the Christmas celebration, I overheard my daughter-in-law proudl…

at the time, the small beach house in Maine. It was not grand. It had low ceilings, old beams, white curtains, and the kind of salt air smell no candle company has ever truly captured.

That Maine house was mine.

Not ours.

Mine.

Julian and Vanessa had been living rent-free in the spacious upper apartment of my Berkshire home for nearly three years. It continue reading …