Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.

Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307787699