• The Weight of Small Things

    He is two years old. He weighs fourteen kilograms, which is something I know precisely because I carry him, often, and because his weight has become a kind of unit of measurement for presence.

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  • Learning to Be Patient (Notes from the Floor)

    Patience, I thought I knew, was a virtue I had in reasonable supply. Then I had a toddler. Now I understand that what I had was the absence of adequate provocation.

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