Min looked around the dinner table tonight and said, “Wow, this is the summer of learning new things.” And it’s true. He’s been taking computer courses, and working on some big projects. My son learned to bike without training wheels, and is now bombing around the neighbourhood. My daughter’s learning to play tennis. And I’ve…

Oh my. I’ve learned nothing! I have six billion projects in the midst of massive revisions and I’m not learning anything new! Not only that, but I may be stuck in endless revisions forever and ever and never figure out a decent plotline and never accomplish anything and it’ll be the year of learning nothing…

Except laksa. I did learn to make laksa this week.

And it was good. Thank God.