Last weekend, my second son, Hugo, came home for the first time since June. This is his final year at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, where he’s getting a dual degree in opera vocal performance and European history. Because Hugo was home, Claude came over more than usual. We played euchre three […]
Tag: empty nest
Fully house nearly empty…for now
I have at times, like most parents, imagined my life with a different number of children: What if Claude had been my only child? What if I had stuck to my guns on zero population growth and birthed only Claude and Hugo? What if Max and I had skipped having two more kids together? I’d […]
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