The precise and crucial difference between a concern and a piece of evidence.

My work was to look at a great tangle of transactions and see the shape hiding inside it, the thing that did not fit, the risk no one else had noticed yet.

Brandon used to tell people, in the early years, that my ability to see what others missed was one of the reasons he had fallen in love with me.

And then, after Lucas was born, he gradually persuaded me not to go back to it.

He framed it, at first, as concern for my exhaustion.

Then as simple childcare efficiency, the math of daycare versus salary.