Quiet Joy: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Quiet Joy from the book Ghosts of Parenting. The episode explores the quiet, often unnoticed moments of joy that move through everyday parenting, not as reward or resolution, but as brief pockets of presence that exist alongside exhaustion, responsibility, and care. It reflects on how this subtle joy appears in ordinary gestures, shared silences, and unremarkable transitions, how it cannot be held or summoned, and how it slowly shapes memory over time. Rather than offering advice or reassurance, the conversation names a lived emotional field many parents already know, giving language to a form of connection that is small, fleeting, and deeply real, even when everything else feels heavy.