I Walked Into My Mother in Law’s Will Reading and My Husband Turned Pale When the Letter Was Read

values discipline in a world that rewards charm, and about the slow, painful realization that her son had learned to deploy charm the way other people deploy skill, as a substitute for the harder work of actually becoming competent.

Once, while we were sorting medical papers at her dining table, she looked at me over the rim of her reading glasses and continue reading …