I developed designs, budgets, and the kind of practical details that determine whether a beautiful place remains beautiful after people begin using it.

We hired two employees and eventually moved into a light-filled office above a bookstore.

I rented a modest house with a fig tree in the yard.

Jude liked to dig around its roots.

Wren collected stones and declared them treasures.

Oliver spent most afternoons trying to convince the family dog, Pepper, to wear a paper crown.

They were three years old and had the astonishing ability to make every room seem full even when they were all sitting quietly with picture books.

Jude had Callum’s dark eyes and straight eyebrows.