At Dinner My Daughter In Law Mocked My Unemployment Until I Revealed The House Was In My Name

and called on Sundays to tell me how it was going. I had the particular freedom of a woman who has learned, through repeated demonstration, exactly what she is capable of.

The rental market was, as I had told Jennifer on her last night at my table, genuinely brutal this time of year.

I opened the newspaper and began to read.