Archive - September 24, 2020

My 6-year-old cousin sits beside me on the couch, madly typing away on an old-fashioned calculator. She asks me, when the screen can’t handle any more digits, What’s this number? I answer: two million, five hundred sixty-four thousand, eight hundred twenty-three. Or something like that. I can only recall the two million for sure. She asks, Is that a big number? Yes, it is. And I pause, adding, I think that’s the number of photographs your mommy and I have looked at this week. She looks at me, not old enough to have a fully-developed number sense, or understand my…