It begins with my toes. It’s November 24th, 2008. Monday morning, 5:15 a.m., and my toes are beyond my reach. I stretch every day before biking down the western edge of Manhattan to my job at New York Public Radio, WNYC, but this Monday I’m awake in the ink-stained dawn, sitting on [...]
I am not sure if I will be able to adequately explain this for non-parents, but bear with me.
You are standing and watching your child sleep – their miniature motions and rustlings – and realizing that one year ago today, the human being in front of you was in all likelihood still an even [...]
The alarm hisses static at me at 4:45 a.m., inexplicably never waking Kate or Piper, but sending my arm out frantically groping for the button to swat it on the nose and send it slinking back to its crate. A moment of silence in the cool darkness as my arms and legs fall back [...]