"No One Really Prepares You for the Kind of Math When 1+1=3 "
But the issue of children and who looks after them has become, in my view, profoundly political, and so it would be a contradiction to write a book about motherhood without explaining to some degree how I found the time to write it. For the first six months of Albertine’s life I looked after her at home while my partner continued to work. This exp
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When I started writing this section last fall, my father-in-law (one of my most dedicated readers!) asked me how his son factored into my l calculus.
For fun, I conjured up the most analytical response I could: a cash-generative, appreciating asset with a slew of ancillary benefits and intangibles, never to be sold.
And he slowly thought about it a... See more
For fun, I conjured up the most analytical response I could: a cash-generative, appreciating asset with a slew of ancillary benefits and intangibles, never to be sold.
And he slowly thought about it a... See more
The Luckiest
Engaging in something new, difficult, frustrating, oftentimes inexplicable, and endlessly expansive has helped me understand students like never before.
Elysha Dicks • Someday Is Today
Whenever someone tells me they’re expecting their first baby and they’re nervous, I tell them the following: “Oh my goodness, that’s wonderful. I am so happy for you. Listen, of course you’re nervous but here’s the deal: you’re ready for all the bad stuff. You’ve been very tired before. You’ve been in pain before. You’ve been worried about money be
... See moreRob Delaney • A Heart That Works
Before Victoria was born, I used to grumble about couples we knew who had been lobotomized by the birth of their children. Perfectly intelligent people with whom we'd enjoyed countless debates over politics, prose, the death of the theater, or the decline of poetry now burbled at us about their little boy's first tooth or spent hours sharing the en
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