My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

Kidder wryly notes how celebrity can be refracted through family life: her grandson’s sense of her is mediated by her most famous role, Lois Lane, which is repeatedly encountered through holiday-season television reruns. The line underscores the durability of mass-media images—especially annual “event” programming like Christmas broadcasts—and how they can shape intergenerational memory more powerfully than private experience. It also carries a gentle irony: professional work done decades earlier becomes a kind of social currency within the family, earning her “points” not through status or wealth but through a child’s admiration and recognition.