Under the Wire

Closing

The door? A book? The possibilities are limitless!

Excuse me for playing word games with myself. I have developed a habit over the years of turning every significant event that happens to me into a column. Not real sure how this one is going to unfold, or more likely, unravel.

The event prompting this column was Sue and I just returning from a closing with son David and his wife Kathy, who bought our cute little second house and the acre or so it sits on.

I know such events take place hundreds of times a day around the country but our long anticipated “family” transaction was a once in...