My Daughter Tried to Keep Me Out of the Lake House I Built, But When She Arrived for the Fourth of July, I Had Already Made Room

three kids. My son David from Charlotte. My sister Pauline, bad knees and a laugh that still sounded like church hats and mischief. Anybody who had a place in our family had a place at that lake house.

I stocked the refrigerator for two weeks. I bought fishing rods and pool floats and board games and bug spray. I made welcome baskets for the grandchildren continue reading …