I Delivered My Daughter Alone Until My Mother Demanded $2000 For My Sister’s Kids

because there was something in my arms that required my entire attention and made all other demands seem, for a moment, slightly absurd.

I think about that hour when I need to remember why the rest of it was worth it.

I watch Hazel now. She plays in a house organized around her and around us, where laughter is not a strategic display and quiet is not continue reading …