Family Life

Debbie phoned me at work this afternoon: she was just too exhausted to prepare tonight’s dinner. She had something for the kids, but couldn’t we do something special, just the two of us? Of course we could. I phoned a restaurant we like and ordered one of our favourite meals, for pick-up. By the time [...]

Last week the dismaying news came out that, due to budget cuts, NASA would be abandoning the Mars rover robot Spirit. This tough little space-faring golf cart landed on Mars just before my first child, Daniel, was born. I had been following the mission since before the rocket lifted off on its seven-month voyage. At [...]

Our neighbour declared that I must take Debbie out to dinner, in compensation for leaving her stuck at home with the kids by herself for a week, while I was in Hungary. Friends at church proclaimed that I must take Debbie out to dinner, seeing as she’d just recovered from a bout of illness and [...]

My flight from Frankfurt was held up for five minutes while they got somebody from maintenance to come and make an adjustment to one of the cockpit instruments. Because of that brief delay the plane missed its departure slot, and we sat on the ground and waited for an hour before the control tower gave [...]

A wonderful opportunity presented itself today: a friend offered to babysit so we could go out to dinner. We rarely eat out, and we’re kid-free even less often. Needless to say, we jumped at the opportunity. Debbie already knew where she wanted to go, which led me to question whether she has this mental list [...]