Finding Joy
I’m a middle-aged dad with three teens. My mother still asks if I have eaten
As a child, the writer used to take his mother’s cooking for granted. Not any more.
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There is something moving about being almost 50 and knowing that someone has cooked an entire dish simply because you like it, says the writer.
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Jared Ng
Sometimes, just before dinner, my mother tells me that I am putting on weight. She pokes my belly and says I am beginning to look like my father. Other times, it’s the opposite – she says I have become too thin.
Her response to both is the same. She feeds me.