Family Life

I took the Youth Group caroling tonight, around the neighbourhood surrounding our church. There were about ten of us, traipsing around with torches improvised from two-liter plastic pop bottles with candles inside. We had song sheets, we knew the songs, and it wasn’t very cold. In years past within a couple of minutes you couldn’t [...]

The book I’m currently reading listening to involves a large family of very bright people. The kids are very different from each other, but they’ve all grown up to careers in science: a physicist, a research biologist, an anthropologist. Except one. He’s grown up to be a worker in a brick factory. It’s not until [...]

Don’t be fooled by the photo: I very rarely get to read books. That is, I never have the time to sit down to read an ink-on-paper real-life book. Instead, I listen to audio books. This has the advantage that I can do something else while I listen to the book, as long as the [...]

It’s fun to be home for Christmas. The past couple of years we’ve celebrated Christmas while traveling, enjoying a warm climate and the company of extended family. This year Christmas will be at home. It will be just us, no extended family. It will be the usual winter freeze, no sunny beach. But we’ll be [...]

Debbie has been wrapping Christmas gifts for the past month. Every time she finishes a wrapping session she comes out grinning ear to ear, bubbling over with excitement. She can’t wait till Christmas day, for her gifts to be opened. She endures more suspense over gifts she gives than over gifts she receives. Hubby, on [...]