My mother-in-law pointed at the door during New Year’s dinner and snapped, **“If you don’t like my rules, get out!”** – Welcome

through the gap of the opened doors with the whole congregation between us, I could see that he had been crying. His eyes were red and his jaw was set and he was looking at me with the particular expression of a person who has been hurt on someone else’s behalf and is trying, with everything they have, to hold steady for them.

That was what steadied continue reading …