Every mother has, at one point or another, gazed into the crystal ball of daydreams and imagined her eldest sonĢƵ future as an Olympic runner, or a composer whose symphony fills the halls of history, or a movie star sinking his hands into HollywoodĢƵ concrete, or a sweet, neurotic ...
ItĢƵ the last gasp of summer, a morning that feels more July than late September. My daughter sleeps snuggly in the baby carrier thatĢƵ become an extension of myself, and my son leads me
confidently across the park, to His Swing, the only one low enough to the ground for a
toddler to ride ...
My son has begun devouring books.
One might think, “A writer whose son loves reading. She must be delighted!” But I did not write, My son loves reading. I wrote, My son has begun devouring books. The latter is both more dramatic and considerably more accurate.
The other night, we came to ...