Baking marathon culminates in publisher eating real cake
We have now made it to Valentine’s Day, just five days late (or four, if we go by the issue date). The cake was delicious, and we ate it for the next two days.
It is a game she just invented when she looked at the donut box
If you think that Kina making up a math game because she saw the squares of the fibonacci sequence on a donut box doesn’t make me irrationally proud, you are sorely mistaken.
Kina gives him a choice—put it in the paper or she will tell her friends
Kina was very serious about the choice I faced, and so now you get to read about my little road rage incident from last week, which I promised very seriously never to repeat. So now you know, too. I’m getting better at this.
dad
p.s. I expect to be caught up to the current edition in just a few more days here. Hang in there.
You give them red envelopes, they give you a year of good fortune and you can pet them
When I wrote this, it was still technically the Lunar New Year, and I am particularly proud of both my annual New Year lion and my traditional Chinese lettering here. This is quickly becoming my favorite edition of every year.
Child who has visited Manila twice accurately clocks the national vibe
It says a lot about the Philippines that our 8-year-old daughter understands how polarizing a place it can be. The fact that she chose “magnificent” as a verb, though, tells you where she stands.
dad
p.s. A reminder that I am slowly working through a backlog here, so it is by design that you are getting this edition nine days late. We’ll get there. Patience.
Sure, it’s $10 for 12 minutes, but the defensive driving skills are worth it
Every time we go to Target, we end up stopping by this weird permanent light-up kid motorcycle test-drive track that anchors the end of the 6th floor of the Skyview Mall in Flushing. The same young goth is always working and is so incredibly over it. Kina, however, is overjoyed, every time.
Publisher has no love for sports, but she loves an excuse to break dress code
And just like that, we’re back to Kina dressing however she wants. In this case, though, it’s because every other kid in the school was wearing sports jerseys, and Kina doesn’t know enough about any sport to have a point of view about fandom. So, a nice black top.
Nonconformist concedes after several notes from administration
I cannot recall the last time she complied fully with the school dress code.
(Programming note: I’m gonna send two a day until we catch up. Think of it as a march through history. I’m actually contemplating ditching my Instagram entirely, which would make this the canonical Daily Kina, so I would not expect these long gaps to recur. Thank you, as always, for your subscription.)
They enjoy Chinese New Year festivities and marvel at tasty food
Hannah has lived in New York for a very long time, which made her first visit to Manhattan Chinatown with Kina on the Lunar New Year all the more special.
