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Final week of 1st grade full of activity and energy

Jun 27, 2023

I cannot believe it has come to this, again. Thank you to Team Yeah-Yeah and Grandma for being there with Kina today as she grows up.

dad

p.s. Here’s all the prior last days of school

Child Steps Up

david yee

June 25, 2022

I refuse to let six robed judicial goons deny this child her well-deserved flowers. This is the third end-of-year celebration Kina has had since the inception of The Daily Kina, but in many ways the most significant of the three. Songs were sung, capes were decorated, names were announced, her grandparents were watching. This time, unlike the last two, K…

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Last Day of First Year of School

david yee

July 1, 2020

Themes that are emerging in the last week or so have included sudden storms and the end of school. I am trapped at the moment, in fact, in my car as another storm passes, reading an interview in the New York Times with a member of the American Association of Pediatricians

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Big Girl Graduates From Pre-K

david yee

June 26, 2021

It was almost exactly a year ago that I sent the first edition of the newsletter version of this imaginary newspaper that I illustrate every morning for our daughter, with the top headline of “Kid Bids Hyped Farewell to Teachers”. This exercise started just as school ended, and now it is ending again. Having already written

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