I haven’t entered milestones into a baby book. I haven’t written many journal entries or blog posts. I have taken many photos, and I have kept every consequential piece of paper. I have been her mother for a year, which is mind-boggling and also consistent with my sense of time in adulthood. I am writing this soon after Doris’s first birthday party. We had it at the playground closest to my house on the Saturday morning following her birthday. I love being at playgrounds wi

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[ This is a second installment to the blog post I wrote in the spring of 2022 about my project to make a quilt out of the T-shirts I...