Family Life

Here’s this boat, loaded with tourists, engine running at high power to hold it against the current, at the foot of Niagara Falls. The passengers are getting soaked. I wonder if they can see the beautiful double bow from down there. I spent the day at Niagara Falls. Beautiful weather. Hot, sunny, clear. A gorgeous [...]

Today I wandered around an historic village, taking photos, ducking into arts and crafts stores, ambling through museums, seeing what life was like around here a hundred years ago. We have New Zealand visitors who’ve just arrived from touring Europe, and I was showing them the local sights. We got to talking about the ancient [...]

Quote 1 At church today during worship Daniel (3) remarked, “Jesus has an exclamation mark.” When asked why, he replied, “Because he is exalted.” Daniel is learning to read, and we give him occasional typing sessions on the computer. He’s particularly interested in certain punctuation symbols, and we explained that an exclamation mark indicates excitement, [...]

The bathroom is finally done. Late last night I added another coat of paint. Tonight I removed all the tape and plastic and tools and tins and paraphernalia that my construction project had accumulated over the last two weeks. I scrubbed and cleaned the bathroom, mopped the floor, and put back all the usual mats [...]

I like golfing about as much as I like a hole in the head. We have an annual work golf tournament, excitedly anticipated by the golf nuts I work with. The first year I said I wouldn’t be going. That was looked on unfavorably. The second year I managed to be involved with a super-urgent-top-priority [...]