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Andrew Shutes-DavidMusings on fatherhood and marriage, adoption and estrangement, faith and politics, and what it means to be here.
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Seventeens, Sad Dads, and Surveys
In high school and college, I worked for Northwest Market Research Group in Bellevue, Washington.
This might not be a thing anymore, but I was one of those guys who calls you up during dinner and tries to ask you a bunch of questions.
I...
August 6, 2026: Bullet Points and Author Notes
Welcome to another round of Bullet Points and Author Notes.
I’ll begin with a list of noteworthy things I encountered on Substack or in the world since the last edition, and then I’ll share about the writing process for my most recent essa...
Taken by the Weather
BEWARE: This is the fourth and final essay in a series in which I reckon with the high school graduation of our somewhat estranged adopted teens. I’ve tried to make each essay stand on its own, but this one draws them all together and might...
July 22, 2026: Bullet Points and Author Notes
Andrew shares links on homelessness, neurodivergence, travel, and the catching of kangaroos, as well as his two rules for writing about family.
Welcome to another round of Bullet Points and Author Notes.
When Is a Story OK to Tell?
I’ve spent the last two-and-a-half years imagining a pair of characters.
Here, I call them Rana and Hiroshi, but they are real kids with real names and real personalities, real sorrows and real joys. They have real histories and real-time...
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Adoptive, biological, and estranged father; husband; writer; editor
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