They are a credit to Ximena, who slept in a front room for four years.

To Dorcas Pham, who took a baby three afternoons a week for two years and got offended about money.

To Barb Yee at Fremont Elementary.

To each other, constantly and mostly unsupervised, for fifteen years.

And to me, some.

Not none.

I did forty-one call-outs and every parent-teacher conference and twenty-two years at a warehouse and I am not going to pretend that was nothing.

What I did badly was not the shifts.