- Reading fantasy novels on the front porch of my house with cold minted water.
- Studying the organ systems of the body in preparation for the nursing school entrance exam: drawing diagrams of nerve cells, of the human heart.
- Learning to swim
- Wednesday nights drinking in the cemetery and talking about kids, husbands. Riding bikes with women late at night.
- Assassin movies with Ian
- Rowan’s small strongholds of arguments (“No, it is an airplane”)
- Holding each other at the end of every day, feeling tired and good
