what she had said, and laughed.
I said, “It’s your paint if you’re the one paying for it.”
She narrowed her eyes at me. “That’s your way of saying yes?”
“It’s my way of raising adults.”
So the room became pale blue, because my granddaughter wanted “the color of cold sky before birds wake up,” which struck me as unreasonably poetic for a five-year-old but continue reading …