Naomi Ulsted writes fiction, personal essays, and screenplays. Her work has been published in Salon, Mud Season Review, and The Forge, among others. She was the recipient of the 2018 Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship for drama. She now resides in Layton, Utah, with her husband, two boys, and two cats.
Nowadays I am amazed by my former self’s blend of optimism and delusion. I wonder how I got the idea that kindergarten was some magical threshold where children and parents smoothly separate.