A LITERARY COLLECTION FROM VERMONT WRITERS

There’s a time when I’ve got to relinquish any idea that I’m going to have another baby, and I point out to myself that I really don’t care, because the only reason I want this baby rather than a cat or a goldfish is so Karl will never go away and leave me, and I’ve become confident after a decade that Karl will stay even without a tangle of family to trip him on the way out the door. And because I’m a realist, I become enchanted with the benefits of life without more offspri