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As I type this, my dad has been in the hospital for eleven days after receiving a t-cell transplant. (Here are Part 1 and Part 2 of the cancer experience, in case you want the back story.) Yesterday I was able to sneak away and visit him. It was so nice after everything that’s happened […]
I go about my regular day. Changing diapers. Talking about the virtues of simplifying fractions with Cee. Reading Quick as a Cricket 3 times in a row to Mateo. Scrambling eggs. Breaking up a fight about something ridiculous. Reminding someone to both flush AND wash hands. Every time. Nothing has changed. And yet– everything has […]
Nobody asked me. When the world was getting set up, nobody asked me how it should work. Maybe it would have been a good idea. I don’t know all the history and meaning of what “karma” actually is. What I wish was a thing was if you put good out into the world, it will […]