January 21, 2014
My father was named after Isaac, the biblical patriarch. It was a name he disliked, so he reversed the order of his first and middle names. If his full name was called for, he never spelled out Isaac, inscribing only the initial, I. He was gone — a heart attack — before I was nine, […]
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December 25, 2013
Woke at 7:00, stiff as usual. Downstairs, opened one present with Nick: a steampunk rhino (stuffed animal) Nora had gotten him. We have orders to wait for her to wake before opening any others. Nick has resumed his hour of screen time. In my study, a new blotter I requested from Santa. I hadn’t thought […]
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