We started a new tradition this year!! On Monday and Wednesday nights we’re pretending the weather is ferociously cold, getting a small treat, and listening to Tim Curry read “A Christmas Carol” in his signature ominous tones. It’s a delight. The girls were giggling uncontrollably over Scrooge dismissing his nephew by repeatedly saying “good afternoon” […]

As I touched on in the last post, Willa is struggling. The year and its sorrows have caught up with her and she’s weighed down by them daily. Her nights vacillate between the normal conspiratorial giggles and whispers with sisters, and crying herself to sleep over all the things she’s lost. Fortunately her delightful sisters […]

2020 has revolutionized the way we interact with one another, both personally and professionally. Some of these changes have even found their way into our lives through midnight Zoom meetings for Brian while he interacts with people in a myriad of time zones. Before 2020 this would be unthinkable. Now? Monthly. This fallout of the […]

In Madang we don’t feel comfortable walking or running with the girls in tow. Back in the days of our double stroller we would take evening walks, but now that all three girls are walking on their own (and huge) it’s less safe. Stray dogs and increased traffic on narrow streets is simply not something […]

A chalk dragon and an insecure young artist. A confident girl seeking the Old Man in the Moon with (believe it or not) another dragon. A homeless and fatherless family living under a bridge in Paris with a grumpy old tramp. A middle school girl wrestling through inadequacy and bullying. Suzy and Sammy Littletail. We […]