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Four Ways Parenthood Upends Perspective

“It’s hard to live at the pace of time,” Tommy likes to say. He usually reminds me of this when I’m restless for the future or when I’m bemoaning a change that forces something I love into the past tense. Jack is an entire year old today. Twelve months—gone, vanished, like dandelion seeds in the wind. No longer an infant. Past tense. It’s hard to live at the pace of time.  When he was a couple weeks old, squawking at...