Adoption 2
Truth-telling
MOTHERING HEIGHTS By Janet B. Villa A few months ago, I was chopping vegetables in the kitchen, listening in on my husband Jojo homeschooling Anna, our six-year-old, on science. “Here,” he said, handing her the Usborne Children’s Encyclopedia. “What do you want to talk about?” Anna flipped through the pages and pointed. “This.” […]
The Truth, and Nothing But
By Janet Villa There is a term for an answer too late in the coming. The French call it l’esprit de l’escalier—literally, “stairwell wit”—a comeback given too late, a retort thought of only after the moment had ended, perhaps when one is on the stairs, leaving the event that required the rejoinder. A few Tuesdays […]
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