Brandon studied me, then smiled.

“Wayne worries too much.

He doesn’t understand big-picture finance.”

I looked at our sleeping daughter and thought of the construction crews working through a cold Michigan morning.

I did not tell Brandon that someone in his own family had finally decided the big picture included them.

PART 6

The security alert frightened me more than I expected.

I knew the account was protected by multiple layers of authentication, and I knew a failed login was not the same as a breach.