Family Life

We’ve spent all summer watching the hedge grow up and out. It has been the kind of thing that inspires the following conversation:
- “We should really trim the hedge.”
- “Mm hmm. It’s getting a bit long, isn’t it.”
- “This weekend, then?”
- “No, we’re busy.”
And so the weeks pass. Spring was dry and so the hedge [...]

This afternoon we went to the local Swiss National Day celebrations. We go every year, eating lunch on the grass in the shade of a tree, balancing paper plates on our knees, striving to keep offspring (three now!) from wandering off into the crowd. There’s a stage and rows of chairs set up in a [...]

Today’s meetings went well. I got out of bed this morning feeling surprisingly refreshed after last night’s marathon drive. The hotel’s buffet breakfast was fantastic, definitely meeting my expectations for such an upscale resort. My breakfast meeting was energetic, fast-paced, high-energy. Good thing I’d had a couple of cups of coffee to get me jump-started. [...]

I knew it was going to be a long drive. Google Maps told me it would be eight and a quarter hours. I wanted to make sure I didn’t arrive too late, so I left just after lunch. Eleven and a half hours later I pulled into my hotel parking lot, bone-weary. In all that [...]

I asked Daniel to come brush his teeth. It was bedtime, and he came along cheerfully with no objections. He was in the middle of telling me an involved story, and once Daniel gets talking he forgets himself, forgets to object about going to bed, forgets everything except the story. Single-minded.
Anyway, on the way to [...]