Seriously – our second child is 17! If I didn’t know us – I’d think we were old. But…I do….and we’re not. So let’s move on. She’s had some eventful birthdays – birthdays in warm places and cold places. Birthday’s at home and traveling. But this is now the third year she’s celebrated her birthday…

or Our SD is now one-year PT One year ago today, we had a violent attack inside our house. A word like ‘anniversary’ doesn’t quite fit, as it feels like it has an underlying sense of celebration. But today is a marker in time no matter how it’s referred to, and I can’t think of…

Yesterday was the day many traditions in the Christian faith refer to as Ash Wednesday. It’s the beginning of the period of Lent leads up to Easter. (Also the day before Shrove Thursday – or “Pancakes-For-Supper-Day” as it’s also known) It’s called Ash Wednesday because in many churches there is a service in which ashes…

It feels like there are frequently times in our lives here where we have to stop and almost double-check if something just happened There is the more surreal: “Did we just drive across the country during a military coup d’état and we didn’t know it?” There is the bizarre: “Did someone just knock on our…

For almost a year various health agencies around the world have struggled to communicate to the public at large, what needs to be done to help reduce the spread of this virus. Of course, this task has been made harder by individuals and groups who for reasons incomprehensible to me, seem to ignore, minimize, or…