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Andrew Shutes-David

Musings on family, faith, adoption, politics, and what it means to be here.

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Latest Issues

I Want My Story to Have an Inside Scoop

This is an experimental post.

I’ve been trying to think about ways to incentivize paid subscriptions for the generous readers who have already paid for subscriptions or who might consider paying in the future.

People on Reddit say this...

7 days ago
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I Want My Story to Belong

When our adopted teenagers left our home in the middle of the night, never to return, I remember feeling alone.1

Not alone in a mathematical sense—Zade and Corrigan were sleeping soundly around the corner, and Erica was beside me, applying...

16 days ago
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Very Short Mother's Day Monkey Tree

I’m writing this just after midnight.

That foot in my side belongs to my four-year-old, who crawled into our bed a few minutes earlier. His hand is twitching on my arm.

When I finish this post, I’ll read a chapter of Lost Souls Meet Und...

a month ago
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The Fragility of Man

About a decade ago, a group from our church went to hear the race theorist Robin DiAngelo present her theory of white fragility.

This is basically the idea that white people get squeamish, angry, or defensive when confronted with narrative...

a month ago
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The Race to End (or Diminish) Ed Tech

At 7:59 this morning, my wife sat on our couch, her fingers poised over her laptop, ready for the second hand to make its last dramatic turn.

She had trained for this—clicked the buttons, prepared her entries, prepped her team.

She was...

2 months ago
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