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.
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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.
Sorry for the long delay. Kina infected our entire house with the worst flu of our entire lives. I’ll just give you the whole series at once, so as not to overwhelm your pity generators. Thank you for your subscription and your patience.
The Cooties Are Upon Us
Inevitably, the fever of the month visits its wrath upon our beloved publisher’s immune system
It started small. At this point we figured this would be a 24-hour affair. How wrong we would be!
Gas-obsessed friends take stock of recent belch history
There is a whole oral history that Kina and Amelia have—that each of them can recite—of all the burps they have shared in their friendship, but I have never successfully transcribed it. I promise to do so whenever I can.
Kid makes wish for new year, asks for eternity spent with parents
This is the first time Kina has really given voice to the wish and worry about how finite our time together might be—both in our home and in our existence. It plucked a string in me that I haven’t let go of since she said this. I also want an infinity life with her—and with Laurea—and it’s making me treat this moment that we do have more tenderly.
Confident publisher appreciates her own vibe, is unapologetically intense
I sort of forgot to write specifically about our visit to the Noguchi Museum, and so I kind of made the whole issue about it. Look how big she is! Look at that energy!
