How to Get Unstuck

Life lessons from a shrimp.

“Look how beautiful.”

I glanced to the other side of the bed, where my partner’s face was bathed in the blue glow of his phone. “So colorful,” he murmured, transfixed by something undulating onscreen.

It was a YouTube video of the mantis shrimp. This may sound random, but it’s pretty much par for our nighttime routine since he started reading An Immense …