“Can I ask you something?”
“Anything, mom.” We had driven over to Forest Trace to visit my nearly 105-year-old mother.
“Have you been watching?”
“Watching what?”
“TV. CNN.” She was having a good day, actually quite a good week, and for some time had been eager to talk about things in the news from gun control to the elections in Israel.
“You mean the confirmation hearing for the newly proposed CIA director?”
“Yes, him. I forget his name. But he’s from New Jersey.
“He’s John Brennan and he is from Jersey. So what do you think about him?”
“He has a nice family.”
