#2: Madness is hereditary; you get it from your kids. — A few months ago, I wrote my experiences as a stay-at-home dad during the first two-and-a-half years of my daughter’s life. It’s time for the next chapter. The first years started rough but saw tremendous growth in my child and me as a stay-at-home dad — a growth halted in…

Why is that even a thing? — It’s late, and you’re not in the mood to cook. After asking your kids what they want to eat, you park your car at the fast-food chain with the big yellow arches — You’re getting your kids McDonald’s. When did “getting [your kids] McDonald’s” become a thing? Was it when…

It‘s not as dreadful as you might think. — When Summer Break comes around, more of my time goes towards entertaining my daughter, resulting in fewer articles and stories written on Medium. But does it mean less readership, engagement, and money? Taking A Break We all need breaks from work, children, news, or life. Sometimes, it’s inevitable, as it was in my…

Inevitably important topics are put aside for “more relevant and newer” news. — There are reasons I don’t watch or read the news. It’s always politics, violence, celebrities, and any local news. Okay, that last one isn’t bad but gets outshined by the other topics. Don’t believe me? Open any news website, or even the news tab of Twitter or Facebook, and see…

This is why you have preflight testing. — On 20 June 2022, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) finished their extensive wet dress rehearsal for the agency’s Artemis I mission at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. Though met with a few hiccups, this weekend’s practice session reached a satisfactory conclusion. The Artemis Program NASA revitalized the U.S. space…

Thrifty Words 100 Challenge #72: ‘Fear’ — Whenever one flies by, I yelp and remove myself. Wasps stung me many times as a kid — even on my birthday — and instilled me with fear of anything black-and-yellow zooming about their business. As an adult, this fear gets dismissed as irrational. Like many fears — spiders, heights…

But are we willing to give up these conveniences? — On Sunday, Last Week Tonight raised awareness among viewers that there are two bills in the works to take the monopoly away from big tech companies — most notably Amazon, Alphabet (Google), meta (Facebook), and Apple. The two bills in question are the Open App Markets bill and the American…

Thrifty Word Challenge 50 #92: Fix It — “Can you come over and fix my computer? The computer is running so slow, and I can’t read my email. And every time I open internet, these weird websites load, and when I close my daughter’s music download program, the computer suddenly freezes.” “I’ll come and reformat your computer again.” …