Kudos to Lolo Mon and his new heart valve. Maybe Kina will spend a few years learning to fix hearts.

dad

There is something grandiose about The Spirit of Bed that I really admire. It was worth the hug.

daf

You could also just slowly walk away, but that is more advanced.

dad

Sometimes you pick up the remote as you walk across the room. Maybe you don’t get quite as far in two seconds. That’s reality. It’s okay.

dad

Maybe actually I’d like to know.

dad

Never discount the impact of your colleagues’ knowing what your favorite tulip is. Mine is the orange one.

dad

Classes in pools sound fun, I guess.

dad

What if we have been eating with our mouths open the entire time we have known each other, and the only way we finally found out is because our kid inherited the recessive gene trait of closed-mouth eating?

dad

She’s unique. One of a kind, and one is odd.

dad

I have explained to Kina how people die and what it means to die, but I don’t think I had ever really thought about why we die. It seems nonsensical, like a fault in the laws of the universe. I understand entropy, of course, and the shortening of telemeres, the hardening of soft tissues and the brittleness of hard things. It’s hard to understand why things dissolve and what purpose it serves for us to… stop existing.

I don’t know how to answer that. It doesn’t make sense.

She was pleased to have stumped me.

Who among us has not stayed until they shut down the club, ate some spicy fried nonsense, and had to puke in order to sleep?

It’s a rite of passage.

dad

Come for the flying dream, stay for THE COOL S.

dad

No variety show that rejects Kina’s close-up magic routine is worth watching, anyhow.

dad

Daddy recalls that time that Gertie had to get her kidneys flushed and they made her arms into little boots.

dad

Kina makes me pretend to be a chatty hairstylist when I brush her hair, but I fear she has taken her role as a demanding client too seriously. Type 2Bs, amirite?

dad

I think the alternatives she gave to us, her parents, for the ideal superpower were “going back in time” and “transporting yourself”, but she has picked “going back in time” so that she can live her life again and again and never lose the ones she loves. I think I’m still just a little heartbroken. I want us all to live forever, which is a superpower all unto itself, but it might also be nice to go back with Kina and the rest of my family to, well, another time.

dad

The orchids were lush, though.

dad

We were just trying to make ourselves comfortable for a little nappy nap.

dad

She got pulled off Librarian duty to keep the lines orderly until the rowdy boys could be retrained.

dad

At the end of the visit, the spy museum sends out a dossier about your kid, and it says that Kina is either a fashion designer or a social worker.

So, no lasers.

dad