Letter to Henry Wallace, 2 Years

Dear Henry,
I can’t believe you are two.  I feel like we were just planning your first birthday party, and the world was going to end if I did not get that baby book finished in time, goddammit.  How we held it together just to make it through that first year of sleepless nights when, oh [...]

A Conversation About the Laundry

M (gesturing to the overflowing basket of clean laundry that has been on the bedroom floor for 6 months now): Do you need me to wash that?
Me: No.  It’s clean.  You know this.
M: If we all kept our laundry on the floor like you do, we would be swimming in dirty armpits.
Me: No, because I [...]