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01Undated

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

Stacey D'Erasmo / quote

02Undated

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

Stacey D'Erasmo / quote

03Undated

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.

Stacey D'Erasmo / quote

04Undated

I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless.

Stacey D'Erasmo / quote

05Undated

The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.

Stacey D'Erasmo / quote