When You Only Ride Rollercoasters for Love

When she asks, you go for a ride.

Photo by Meg Boulden on Unsplash

My daughter is nine years old. She seems too little to want to do crazy things, but she’s growing quickly and wants to try stuff. She has some emotional challenges that we’re working through, and I know about them because she’s like I was as a kid, but, like, way worse. I think. Kids are weird, man. They rewrite their own manuals every…