I Was Holding My Son’s T-Shirt When His Teacher Called And Said He Had Left Something Behind

the things that genuinely mattered to him. He loved math because Mrs. Dilmore made it feel like a puzzle with a satisfying answer waiting at the end, and he had a theory, which he shared with me more than once at the kitchen table, that most things in life were like that if you paid close enough attention.

I had not been paying close enough attention continue reading …