In court, my ex’s lawyer held up my son’s torn shirt, sneering, “She can’t even clothe him.” My heart sank as the judge frowned. But then, my 8-year-old stood up and said, “Judge, please look inside the collar.” When the judge unbuttoned it, his face turned pale, and he looked straight at my ex…

developed a consuming, almost feverish obsession with the cosmos following a school-sponsored expedition to the municipal science museum. Our tiny apartment suddenly echoed with endless, breathless monologues about the crushing gravity of Jupiter, the icy rings of Saturn, and the mind-bending concept that the starlight we see at night has spent thousands continue reading …