Thank God for John Steele Gordon’s article “The Problem of Money and Time” in the May/June issue. Our in-laws’ diatribe about how “You, the younger ones, spend so much money, and how it is that you do not appreciate how we spent so much less on our childhood pleasures or needs” has temporarily ceased. I imagine many of our peers who read American Heritage ran off copies of that article, as we did, and sent them off to such elders.

I always thought we weren’t doing so badly, and now I better appreciate that we’re doing just fine.