I recently had the pleasure of experiencing the moment when you open a box and see, for the first time, a shiny new book that you wrote (and believe me folks, this is one beautiful book, thank you ECW Press!). My son Noah took this photo of me holding a copy of IN THE BODY for the first time. Then we had this conversation:

“It took your mom ten years to write this book!” I told him.

“Wow, why so long?”

“Well, I wrote it slowly over time. There’s one story in there called Birthday Boy that I wrote when you were a tiny baby, because I loved you so much.“

“What did the Birthday Boy do?”

“Hmmm, well, it’s a story for adults. You can read it when you grow up.”

“Okay. Can I play on the ipad?”

“Yeah, sure.”

And as fast as it blew in, my momentous moment of satisfaction was over. But it was most definitely worth the ten years of "work".