Tag: writing
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Two Weeks In: Heaven, Hell, and a Very Small Baby
1/18/2026 Kids, when you guys grow up, you should buy your mom a horse (and then pay for its room and board… vet bills… supplements…). Anyways, it is two weeks in of having Child #1. I am exhausted, and your mommy is even more exhausted. Context: You were born 6 weeks early and at only…
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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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The Food That Made Me 