Tag: life
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Joy, Horror, and a Four-Pound Baby
1/7/2026 Kids, Child #1 was born on 1/4/2026, six weeks early. I can’t really express the range of emotions that I currently feel. It ranges from joy to horror. Her Chinese middle name, as my #2 Niece called her, is “Reading Beauty.” I have a 4-pound child now. She weighs less than a 5-pound dumbbell.…
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How to Find a Best Friend
11/17/2025 Kids, I do hope you guys find a best friend. Mine is Uncle Butters. Uncle Butters is the Jonathan to my David. I was yearning for a best friend in college, and it was an even more desolate time before that. College can be lonely. We met during college at a Greek Intervarsity Christian…
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Believing in Yourself, One Cheesecake at a Time
10/14/2025 Kids, believe in yourselves. Doing something for the first time is always scary. So many things can go wrong! Will the dough rise properly? Did I whip it to the correct consistency? Did I heat the pan to the right temperature so that things don’t stick? I call this risk management, and others call…
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The Food That Made Me 