For those familiar with the blog, the format of the recipes is straight-forward. There are the introductory remarks, followed by the “What to Grab” and “How You Do It” sections. These sections are at once straight-forward, but also infinitely complex. A recipe for apple pie, for instance, will have only so many ingredients, and those ingredients – apples, flour, butter, sugar, cinnamon, cloves – will vary only so slightly, if at all, from any other apple pie recipe. But in the construction, the creation of that pie, there are an infinite number of combinations, variations, and subtleties, such that any given recipe may stand out from its predecessor.
So, too, of course with a child. The basic format is a matter of biology, common to almost all living organisms. And then again it isn’t.
On April 12, 2016, Caitlin and I welcomed Erin …
