She said I was developing a different response to stress.

I laughed and said it felt less like personal growth and more like remembering phone numbers.

‘Sometimes,’ she replied, ‘those are the same thing.’

The trust case was approaching a settlement, but I tried not to let it become the center of our lives.

I took Noah to a baby music group at the library.

I made a friend named Priya whose daughter was three months older.

We traded stories about feeding schedules and the impossible number of socks that disappeared in the wash.