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Before I was a parent I used to joke: “That’s how Chinese people show love.” I made that joke every time my friend complained about how critical her mother was of her. We were in our 20s then. It is curious just how much impact “mother” has on a person. I am just over 40…
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Easily the most unpleasant chore for me as a parent has been writing my will. It should have been easy enough as a single 20something – even 30something! Having no worldly possessions or “legacies” to speak of should have made them easy to address via a “last will and testament.” They were not. Even the…
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*Simultaneously posted at Rice Daddies. Forty-something years old and my mother still knows which buttons to push to upset me. At best, I tolerate my parents. My relationships with each has its own conditions. I say this not because I do not love and respect my parents. I love and respect my parents very much.…
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*simultaneously posted at Rice Daddies. I have a condition I call “Daddy Moments.” Daddy Moments are instances when due to stress, exhaustion, or temporary lapses in cognitive fluidity, I channel the collective psyche of all dads real and fictional throughout the ages. In my brief years as a father I have already channeled the likes…
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*simultaneously posted at Rice Daddies. I have a condition I call “Daddy Moments.” Daddy Moments are instances when due to stress, exhaustion, or temporary lapses in cognitive fluidity, I channel the collective psyche of all dads real and fictional throughout the ages. In my brief years as a father I have already channeled the likes…
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*simultaneously posted on Rice Daddies. My wife and I have this game we play. Actually, it’s a game I play. My wife participates by default. In fact, sometimes she doesn’t even know she’s playing! It’s a game I learned from my parents, who I suspect learned it from theirs, who probably learned it from theirs,…
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I sold my entire cassette collection (over 100 New Wave classics from the 80s and 90s) for $12 on Craig’s List. I hadn’t listened to them in a while and they were taking up valuable real estate in my family’s Manhattan apartment. My family is growing and I needed to clean house. Like some aging…
Vincent Young 