Over the past eight or nine months, I have been continuously thinking to myself: Will I be a good parent? My husband and I are expecting our first child in early March, and as a first-time parent, I am constantly worrying about the baby and what it means to be a parent. In a way, we are already parents. Since my husband and I moved to the Northwest for his assignment at the Tacoma Buddhist Temple in 2020, we have been pet parents.  Our cat, whom we adopted from the local humane society, has...