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The Parent Ren, Part IV: The Big Bad World Out There
Posted on September 20, 2017
There was a tremendous earthquake in Mexico City today, 32 years to the day of the big one in 1985. (Seriously, what are the odds?) There is also a category 5 hurricane heading to Puerto Rico. In Myanmar, the army is systematically killing Muslims as the survivors of the “cleansing” are making their way to […]
The Parent Ren, Part III: Sleep? What Sleep?
Posted on September 15, 2017 3 Comments
Everybody who knows anything about raising a child from birth warned me about the lack of sleep. They were not joking when they said that sleep would become a big commodity in our lives. In fact, my wife and I kind of dreaded what was to come from the very first night we spent with […]
The Parent Ren, Part II: Patience
Posted on August 26, 2017
A friend of mine pointed out to me that I had written a blog post referencing “The Child” back in 2012. In fact, my wife and I talked about The Child as far back as I can remember being with her. (That’s something I didn’t do with other girlfriends, by the way.) We started off […]
The Parent Ren, Part I: Clean As You Go
Posted on August 24, 2017 2 Comments
When I was a teenager, there was a lot of pressure for me to finish high school and get a job. The pressure didn’t come from either of my parents, actually. It came from my uncles and cousins. In our culture, education was one of those things that you did because you had to and […]
The Blood in My Veins
Posted on August 22, 2017
When I was seven years old, my younger brother arrived in the world. I remember the day clearly because we had been waiting for him for a while. I was out playing with my cousins when my mom walked out to find me. “Is he here?” I asked her full of glee. She nodded, and […]
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