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

did not end that day the beanbag burst, though for two hours I was certain it had, and though for many weeks afterward it hung in a kind of balance I would not wish on anyone. It changed. It broke, in the way a bone breaks and then knits back with a knot of extra material at the site of the break, stronger there than it was before precisely because continue reading …