Family Life

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 [...]

We went to a wedding today. Rolf, a young guy I’ve known for twenty years, married Irene, a Chinese girl. It was a hot day. An interesting and somewhat unusual day. A very relaxing day.
First the relaxing part. The wedding was at 1pm, the reception was at six-ish, and we eventually got home after ten. [...]

The geese know winter is coming. They’ve been gearing up to fly south for weeks. They gather in the millpond across the street every evening, so at dusk we have a chorus of honks for about an hour as they settle in for the night. There’s a similar chorus at dawn, which we would hear [...]

Actually, I don’t know if it’s global, but where we are it’s certainly warming. We’ve had hot weather for the past couple of weeks, and hotter still forecast for the days ahead. I have photos of the family outside at this time last year, and everybody’s wearing sweaters and windbreakers. Because it’s cold and windy. [...]

Here’s our intrepid explorer, Lara Croft, poised high above a pit of bubbling lava. It’s hot. The ledge she’s on is slowly receding into the wall. She has to escape. There’s only one way out. There’s a ring in the wall (pointed to by the blue circle) that she can jump and catch with her [...]