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Receiving a medical diagnosis can often come as a relief. All those niggling signs and symptoms are finally explained by a few words and, if we’re…
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Vaccination or Covid-19
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There is a not-so-quiet food revolt taking place in my home. It was early last Sunday morning when my teenage son Julian wandered into the living room…
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We were spread out on the grass for our working lunch on “class management and safety” at my canoe instructor training last Sunday, when I raised the…
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Surgery is set for tomorrow
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Is it firefly season? We were packing up to spend the night at our tent platform, and Yael, 8, was barraging me with questions. Is it butterfly season…
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Musings on our 22nd wedding anniversary
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Telling our kids that we're leaving home without them
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Happy Father’s Day! Did you know that 98 percent of all fathers would be happy to receive “tools” for Father’s Day? That’s according to 106.7 Lite FM…
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Responding to my readers
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Recuperating back at home
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If there’s one play that brings me back to my earliest memory of contracting an infectious disease, it’s The Wizard of Oz. When I was 8 years old, I was…
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