My Son Said He’d “Handled Everything” — Including My Savings and My Home

I shouldn’t have trusted. I made decisions based on assurances that were not examined closely enough. I gave, to various people and causes, more than was prudent, because generosity had always been my instinct and grief amplifies instincts, for better and for worse.

By the time I was sixty, I had made the decision to become a different kind of person.continue reading …