When I Told Grandma Ruth My College Fund Was Only $214 She Asked What Channel My Mom Watches at Six

it the way she signed all of them: All my love and all my confidence, Ruth.

I read it twice and put it back and counted the envelopes. Two hundred and sixteen. I put the lid on the box and did not sleep.

Grandma Ruth had worked for thirty-one years as a paralegal at a civil litigation firm in the city before retiring at sixty-seven. She lived forty minutes continue reading …