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By: …My heart’s in Accra » Getting my Mac to read to me

…My heart’s in Accra » Getting my Mac to read to me — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:43:03 +0000

[...] Tuesday, I go in for long-scheduled retinal surgery. Based on the last time I had this procedure, reading will be impossible for roughly four weeks and [...]

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:26:26 +0000

I don’t know, Tonia. First, I should say that I think a lot of the hedonics research is pretty sketchy. Asking people how happy they are moment to moment, or iterated over a period of time, seems quite susceptible to personal and cultural biases.

I don’t know that anyone’s compared happiness for older and younger parents – I can imagine that there might a big difference.

But here’s another thought – the stuff most worth doing can really suck when we’re doing it. I’m writing a book right now, and while I’m pretty happy to be engaged in that process, moment to moment, it sucks. I get the sense that parenting is likely to have something in common with that experience…

All that said, things will be fine for both of us, our partners and our kids – that I’m confident of.

By: Tonia

Tonia — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:03:00 +0000

As another expectant parent, the data on whether children make you happy is actually a lot less clear. Older parents who have been married for a while and actively sought children do seem to be slightly happier with children. Younger parents who had whoops, though, are significantly unhappy. So things should be fine for us, right?

By: Ingrid Jones

Ingrid Jones — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:18:42 +0000

Happy to read your great news on being a future Daddy Ethan, but sad you are having eye problems and have to endure further surgery so soon. Here’s wishing you and your wife all the very best. Looking forward to seeing your amazing eye pics again! And good luck on your travels. Hope you’ll keep an ear out for any oil news in Nigeria. Does one need eyes to podcast, I wonder…

By: Henok

Henok — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:38:40 +0000

Congratulation Ethan–I am happy for you. Good luck with the surgery.

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:23:51 +0000

I wish you well E. And Congrats at the developments. I pray you and the family enjoy good health all the time.

By: Babak Fakhamzadeh

Babak Fakhamzadeh — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:08:25 +0000

Congrats!

By: bankelele

bankelele — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:34:41 +0000

congratulations on pending parenthood.

best wishes with the surgery and travel plans

By: john bracken

john bracken — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:57:04 +0000

Awesome news congrats to you and R.

By: Ljubisa Bojić

Ljubisa Bojić — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:49:24 +0000

Best wishes from Serbia!