Archives for December 1, 2020

From 2006:

One of my mother’s most treasured heirlooms is a copy of the second edition of Our Baby’s First Seven Years, the “baby book” in which she set down the particulars of my early childhood. I flipped through its yellowed pages yesterday, and as I set out on the longish three-leg trip (two hours by land, two at the airport in St. Louis, three in the sky) from Smalltown, U.S.A., back to New York City, it occurs to me that you might be amused by some of what I found there….

Read the whole thing here.

“There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.”

Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living