It had been a long, exhausting day, and I was looking through my dad’s old files.
He was a businessman and kept an array of documents in a haphazard manner — the Billy Way, my mom always called it. I had been through these same documents when he died in 2009. But then I was dealing with the Veterans’ Administration concerning a complicated pension for my mom in the wake of my dad’s unexpected death and my grieving. Ultimately, the VA screwed my mom on the pension and she received a much smaller amount than she should have.
