The Head Nurse Told Me to Check the Camera at 3 A.M. and I Was Not Prepared

“For what?”

I thought about how to answer that in terms a nine-year-old could hold. “For paying attention when it mattered,” I said.

He thought about this for a moment and then returned to his fractions, which seemed to be more immediately pressing.

I made dinner. He complained about the fractions. We ate at the table and talked about his friend Marcus continue reading …