My Brother Laughed At My Small Business Until I Said One Number At Christmas Dinner

make decisions at three in the morning that determined whether someone woke up. I took a night-shift ER job straight out of school and found that I was good at it, that the chaos suited some part of my brain that needed problems to solve.

And in the brief spaces between codes, when other nurses scrolled their phones, I sketched ideas on the back of continue reading …