Month: December 2025

Oh, Christmas Tree

I’m writing this while basking in the warm glow of our Christmas tree, covered in ornaments we’ve spent a lifetime collecting. Every year, I think our tree is the most beautiful one I’ve ever seen, but I’m biased. It’s filled with old incandescent twinkle lights (I can’t bring myself to buy those obscenely bright LED […]

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Metal Mouth

The moment the dentist showed us the 360 X-ray of our son’s mouth, we could see he’d need braces. His top incisors (the vampire teeth, or often called “canines”) didn’t have any room to come down. Without space, the teeth could clearly erupt from any which way they chose, messing up Leigh’s entire life. Well, […]

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