Last Saturday, I got my first taste of feeding the baby by myself…er…I should say that my baby got her taste of my feeding her. My wife wanted to do a little shopping, and also needed to get new contact lenses, so I stayed with our daughter for about four hours. I’d done this before, [...]
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This weekend was a three-day weekend in Japan. Monday was “Coming of Age Day” (成人の日), which is when cities around the country hold ceremonies to inform those who have turned 20 years old of what it means to be a “member of society” (社会人). The ceremony typically involves young people dressed in expensive kimono and [...]
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For New Years, my wife and I brought our baby back to her hometown, a small city in southern Japan. My daughter was born in a small hospital there, while I stayed elsewhere and continued to work. Even then I felt a little pushed away, although my wife and I had agreed that this was [...]
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