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<\/a><\/p>\nA Conversation With My Daughter<\/strong> Then I asked her, \u201cHow do you know there was a first domino? You didn\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n She stared at the fallen dominoes with a furrowed brow for a few seconds, then said, \u201cIf there was no first domino there would be no world. Nothing could exist.\u201d<\/p>\n Look out, Aristotle. My daughter is gunning for you. So I said to my wife, \u201cIf I was Asian I would totally have purple hair.\u201d<\/p>\n My four-year-old son overheard and said with a dismissive tone, \u201cIf I was Asian I\u2019d have black hair.\u201d Student: \u201cIs public nudity a sin?\u201d Three recent conversations, presented verbatim: A Conversation With My Daughter I set up a line of dominoes running around a corner and had my seven-year-old daughter sit where she could only see the end. I tipped the first domino over and we watched the entire chain fall. Then I asked her, \u201cHow do you know there \u2026 Continue reading \u201cConversations\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-N1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI set up a line of dominoes running around a corner and had my seven-year-old daughter sit where she could only see the end. I tipped the first domino over and we watched the entire chain fall.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n![\"new](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4101\/4913406756_3bfc8e302d_m.jpg?w=840\" "\\"new")
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\nA Conversation With My Son<\/strong>
\nYesterday I took my children to Happy Hollow<\/a>. As we were entering the park we passed by an Asian gal dressed up as an anime character. I\u2019m not sure which one, but she had on some sort of bulky white body armor. More to the point, she had also dyed her hair purple. <\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n![\"kiwanja_palo_alto_texting_3\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3112\/3170278722_a44c5305f9_m.jpg?w=840\" "\\"kiwanja_palo_alto_texting_3\\"")
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\nA Conversation With A Student<\/b>
\nA text message conversation with one of my students (verbatim with a few words removed to preserve anonymity):<\/p>\n
\nMe: \u201cWhat?\u201d
\nStudent: \u201cIs it just kind of weird or is it something to avoid altogether?\u201d
\nMe: \u201cSearch biblegateway.com for the term \u2018modest\u2019.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"