Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever c…”

“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I…”

“Of those of us who comprise the real clan of the book, who read not to judge th…”

“It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only…”