[Found bird’s nest, Berkeley, CA] The moments collect, each unremarkable on its own. But together they add up to something remarkable: things are different now. The natural-sounding quiet around the house. The realization, as the time approaches that we normally would have started making dinner, that we very well could

On Tomales Bay, CA, 2011   A month ago yesterday, I left the job I’d been at for eight and a half years. They were eight and a half meaningful ones, spanning the anchor leg of my kids’ childhoods. It was very much the right job to be doing, striking