Two Friends, Finally For a long time making friends was the thing I quietly grieved the most, more than the words, more than the milestones everybody else warns you about, because making friends is so social, so unspoken, so much a language kids just seem to absorb out of thin air, and Levi never absorbed […]
Six Years for One Bike Ride It took six years to teach him to ride a bike, five to eleven, and I don’t say that to impress you with our patience, I say it because most people don’t think twice about riding a bike, you just get on and go, but riding a bike asks
Hi, Hi, Hi We were driving home from dinner, nothing special about the night, just one of those ordinary Tuesday kind of dinners where you’re tired and the car is quiet and you’re just trying to get everyone home and into pajamas, and he was buckled into his car seat behind me looking out the
