Why did I send emails to my 2-year-old daughter? Memories | Sophie Brickman

Like the baby books' of old, these emails are time capsules - little intimate tidbits and clues of who my child will become, sent off to her future self

Around the holidays last year, when I'd been fielding lots of deep questions at bedtime about sickness and health and Zoom school and pods," I wrote my daughter an email, though she could not yet read:

Scratching your back just now before bed, you sleepily asked, Mama, do you know anyone in the family who's bold? I was like yes! You're bold. And you said I am? And I said yes, you're brave. And you said no no, like has no HAIR, mama.

Sophie Brickman is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times and other publications, and the author of Baby, Unplugged: One Mother's Search for Balance, Reason, and Sanity in the Digital Age