Becoming

all partners. Trying to help remedy the imbalance, I pushed for us to consider law students coming f ...

cook for himself, could load up on a hot breakfast before his morning classes. In the evenings, he park ...

down and talk with him, describing her dissertation work and swapping book recommendations as ...

B for women and their independence. Without needing to discuss it outright, I knew he could ha ...

having allowed a smoker into my life. Angela Kennedy and I still laughed hard together, even though she ...

in Cambodia and dancing at dawn on the grand walkways of the Taj Mahal. As I balanced my checkbook, picke ...

What I find remarkable in hindsight is how, over the course of that winter and spring, I just did my ...

of her bed. I stared hard at Suzanne, at her perfect heart-shaped face and reddish-brown skin, feeling comfo ...

T 10 hat summer, I started keeping a journal. I bought myself a clothbound black book with purple flowers o ...

Barack had accepted a summer-associate job with a downtown firm whose offices were close to Sidley’s, ...

This little flowered book has now survived a couple of decades and multiple moves. It sat on a shelf in ...

I was interested in possibly working for a foundation or a nonprofit. I was interested in helping underpriv ...

trial that never came to pass. On the evening I flew home to Chicago, I felt a heavy ...

T choice I’d ever made. This time, though, she gave me a wry, sideways look, hit her turn signal t ...

bought a nice condo in Hyde Park. He wore tailored suits and had driven over for dinner in his red Por ...

M our own eyes. It grew increasingly hard to do. At home in the evenings, my father spent m ...

F I went over and looked through the little glass peephole in the door, which gave a wide-angle view o ...

permanent. For me, it was another reason why winter couldn’t end soon enough. We’d talked in abstract ways ...

I t was I who made the appointment for my father to see a doctor, but it was my mother who ultimately got him th ...

gone home for the night, the nurses clustered outside at their hallway station. The room was quiet. The whol ...