Tag: Parent-in-law

“Write about how you still love me even though I support President Trump.” I laughed. Of course I still love him. I found it hard to focus at work. With my beloved father-in-law, though, it isn’t hard to remember that truth at all. This is a man who grew up during the Depression, raised by a single mother in the home of his grandparents, Irish Catholic immigrants. Image He remembers riding his bicycle past the rural airport where a man had taken his airplane apart and spent weeks putting it back together, day after day. My own father consistently canceled my vote — from the very first election I voted in until the very last election of his life. But there was never any question about our love for each other. We both cared enough to be informed. The president is polarizing and poisoning the country I love, but I won’t let him poison this family, too.