My Son’s Beanbag Split Open in the Living Room, and the Secret Inside Changed Our Family Forever

the way his lower lip started to go, the way children brace themselves when they have broken something and do not yet know how large the something is. He had not broken anything. He had simply, by being a child and jumping the way children jump, cracked open the center of my whole life.

The beanbag had been a gift from my husband, Mark, three years continue reading …