What is 20?

If 60 is the new 40, and 40 is the new 20, what is 20?

I've been thinking a lot about numbers lately, especially the number 3. My first-born just turned three last week. I had been in a constant kind of Sesame Street trance, "The number of the day is 3!"

If someone ever told my teenage self, "You will have babies in your 40s." I would've thought that person was nuts. But alas, I guess babies come into our lives when they are meant to.

In my novel, Summer of Firefly Memories, the main character (...