The Idea of Permanence

A few weeks ago and with absolutely no context, Beatrice (who goes by Apollo now) ran up to me and said, “I can’t believe you threw me into the pool!”

“What are you talking about?”

“I read it in your essay!”

And so it begins. The children have discovered my writing.

She then proceeded to quote back to me several lines from an essay I wrote about enrolling her in swimming lessons ten years ago.

“You know, people have used that essay in classes to teach writing,” I said neither subtly nor…