The Roll + Our Role as New Parents

I’ve been wanting to write about the roll because it mattered and it didn’t matter

It was a holiday meal when my first child was quite young: lots of food, lots of relatives, pre-Covid.

I couldn’t remember which winter gathering it was and had to look back through my record-keeper, Google Photos, to recall some specifics but I actually don’t think those details matter quite so much as the feeling of being a new parent at a sit-down mea…