When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external...

“...the arms of his swim team sweatshirt still wrapped around the pillow on the …”

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you.”

“I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set …”

“When I was tiny, the county fair came through town. Our parents took us, and go…”