I found my life stripped to the essentials.

“I found my life stripped to the essentials. What I was doing full-time ‘career-wise’ wasn’t about career at all. It was about being a full-time father of three, grandfather of five, and husband of one. I found during the year-plus of stay-at-home sheltering that I was living in tune with the most basic evolutionary prime directive of all, which I’d been researching for this book for five years: the survival of the friendliest. That’s a fancy way to say that—as a sixty-eight-year-old White heterosexual “okay boomer” father and grandfather—I had discovered something surprising about myself: I’d rather be a mother. I’m using the word mother (or mothering) as a verb describing the practice of providing nurturing, creative, joy-filled childcare as a shared, luminous gift given a child by any person of any gender. Whether they’re a biological parent or grandparent, an adoptive parent, professional caregiver, uncle, aunt, or teacher, Black, White, or Brown isn’t the point. And, of course, the practice and experience of mothering is open to all people of any age, no matter how they identify themselves.”

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To be published November 2 by HCI Books • Distributed by Simon & Schuster