ArticleContributorColumn

Slowing down? No, I tell myself, it’s just that the streets are in need of repair and it takes longer to avoid the potholes and uneven spots

 I hated that she was the only mother who panicked. “Come on,” I’d say. “There were still lots of people on the street!”

Why couldn’t Mom see that every moment was precious?

Not so, Dovid says. When you keep your pieces safe, you’re not playing chess right

If each of her siblings were a diamond in her mother’s crown, Bailey felt like the dull space between the glinting stones

I remember that my husband mentioned something about fiddling with my phone yesterday. I should have taken him more seriously