Now, how should the kid address his elders (non-relatives)?
NPY says I’m not raised particularly well. I say he’s not very Chinese. I think they are similar-level insults amongst
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Why have I not made this list earlier?? BIL’s fiancée was over one evening and E wanted his bedtime reading
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Wordplay with the kid is so much fun! Sure, it’s not a physical activity – which is why NPY doesn’t
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Look what I found when browsing through VPL’s eBook collection when I filtered for Available Now for some instant gratification
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It’s been a sucker punch of a week with news of the loss of celebrities. Three days ago, on June
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The email from Canada Mint in the morning and by afternoon – very shortly after I viewed the email – I
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(written for my journal on 14 May 2018) Me: Before the kid came along, was I saying I would speak
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Kids like to know there’s a name for everything and what is more personal than their own bodies? Even as
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I’m writing again because things change so quickly – and at the 33-month mark exactly, no less! When kiddo was
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It started with a question that came to me to ask my mum if she named herself after Grace Kelly.
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