The final breach between father and daughter concerned a subject that has preoccupied Yould through much of her adult life — student loans.
The daughter, concerned that her mother was giving millions in art, cash and life insurance policies to the dapper society photographer François-Marie Banier, brought legal action claiming he was preying on her mother's frailty and failing memory.
The witty damsel of Devonshire, or, A dialogue between a mother and her daughter : concerning Robin the miller whom the daughter hated, and resolved to marry William the plowman whom she dearly loved : tune of Here I love, there I love, or, The two English travellers.
But as can happen in books without plots — see for instance Stanley Crawford's cult novel "Some Instructions to My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage and to My Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of Their Childhood" — "George Anderson" is powered by the conflict between what the narrator wants to say and the limited way he's allowed to express himself.
In "The Blessing," a 92-year-old woman, near death, frets about what she believes is the impending marriage of her youthful daughter, though the marriage is already 40 years past and the daughter concerned with a daughter of her own.
Since returning home six months ago to take a bigger role in raising my five-year-old daughter, concerns I thought I'd buried bother me again.
Her father was initially reluctant to agree to their marriage, thinking that at the age of fifteen she was too young and, being close to his daughter, concerned by the distance between Greece and Russia.
For instance, Sallie Krawcheck, the former Chief Financial Officer of Citibank, once famously put 600 managers on a conference call on hold to take a call from her daughter concerning the location of her pink nail polish, fulfilling a promise that her kids could always reach her, no matter to whom she was talking.
I'm grateful for my daughters' concern, of course, and I'm grateful that they turned out to be the sort of people who remain good-humored about being referred to by me as "the nursing staff".
Jaji has attended the "Daughters Concerned for Aging Relatives" group, where she talks with participants about caregiving experiences and doctor recommendations.
