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Navigating my father’s death, my mother’s needs, and the beautiful chaos of raising two young daughters with my wife.
Words: 10,350+
Reading Time: 40 Minutes
Michael Cervieri didn’t expect life to look like this. He stands on the side of a road in a bee costume waiting for a tow truck, lies sleepless between two restless daughters night after night, and sits with his father’s body for hours after his passing.
In this intimate essay, Michael navigates his father’s death, his mother’s needs, and the beautiful chaos of raising two young daughters alongside his wife. With candor and wit, Michael explores midnight vigils with his phone, conversations about infinity and the infinite with his daughters, and the weight of generational trauma that ripples through families.
All the while, Michael grapples with questions that have no easy answers: How do we know ourselves? What baggage do we pass down to our children? And why does life sometimes feel so itchy?
