My Husband Refused To Buy Diapers For Our Twins Because He Only Wanted One Child

were born, exactly the kind of present, engaged father I’d hoped he would be back when we sat at that kitchen table doing math on a legal pad, before either of us knew what parenthood would actually demand of us.

I still keep that green notebook, worn soft at the edges now, tucked into a drawer instead of taped to the fridge, a small artifact of the continue reading …