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Sometimes I wonder how much I could sacrifice in my life and still consider myself “happy.” Once it was a purely rhetorical exercise, protected as I was by youth from responsibility. I imagined what my life would be like without cable, without eating out, without easy access to the internet, without movies. Do I really [...]

They say having a baby changes everything. An easy thing to say, a harder one to understand. My wife was the first to express it in words, but I was thinking it too: the world we encountered upon leaving the hospital with Simon had changed in a fundamental way. Colors are different. Sounds are different. People [...]

BEFORE SIMON — PART THE FIRST Early one spring morning in 2003, way before I would usually wake on a Saturday, my wife shook me conscious. She probably looked a little apprehensive, but that’s only conjecture on my part; I was still groggy. All of a sudden, though, I was awake, spurred into consciousness by words to [...]