Family Life

This photo was from way back in mid-December, when winter was just getting under way. We had a snow storm that made driving very difficult. Most people just stayed home. We weren’t too surprised. After all, we were heading into the dead of winter and you have to expect something like that sooner or later. [...]

So I bought a new computer. I meant to say, I bought a new hard drive. Not a new computer. I was tempted to buy a new computer. Oh, so tempted. I stopped by at the computer store on my way home from work today to buy a hard drive to replace the one that [...]

There’s this electronic gizmo I’ve been tinkering with for half my life. The problem with building such devices is that they never stand still. Technology races on ahead while you’re not looking. My digital camera, for example, was out of date before I finished figuring out the manual. In this industry, you’ve barely finished a [...]

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 [...]

Today was just as much hard work as yesterday, the day before, the whole week. Tonight we rushed through dinner, got the boys ready to go out and went to Youth Group. Debbie and I didn’t have a lot of responsibilities–show up, interact with the young people, lead the singing, and go home. Others were [...]