My brother is a father of two. He’s a great Dad. He doesn’t believe it himself, but that’s typically him. I was told I was a decent Dad by someone (no, not my Mum), but I wasn’t completely convinced, but that’s typically me. What both my brother and I would agree was we have a […]
Read More Pleasing To The FatherSome things are meant to be. Lovely cliché. It fits nothing better than marriage. It still makes me sad hearing of and witnessing the end of marriages. Two people, two different lifestyles, two cultures, two worlds merging as one. Today my wife and I celebrate 12 years of marriage. I took it for granted because […]
Read More Grateful For 12Time flies by. One moment she was a vulnerable little bundle of joy. Another moment she is not so much walking as bounding from one end of the room to the other. Yet another moment she is a bouncing girl with energy to burn. What I love about Abigail is that she is not about […]
Read More What I Love About AbigailI have been bugged about the concept of brotherly love. This week, however, those issues subsided as I got caught up in the fuss of celebrating ten years of the New Doctor Who. As I considered the show’s return to television, I was reminded of the circumstances in which I got to watch the first […]
Read More Let Brotherly Love Continue: An ExampleIt’s a delight to post this blog at this time. Many years ago my Mum was a big fan of my work. She would notice how many different ideas I would make a note of and encourage me to keep these. She saw me take part in school plays and encouraged me to keep it […]
Read More My Mum: Because She’s A Big Fan Of My WorkA few years back my brother David wrote a guest blog entry. It is time to once more here from undoubtedly the greatest Dryden brother I have ever had. (He happens to be the only Dryden brother I have, but that’s not the point.) Shalom C. L. J. Dryden ————————————————— Greetings to everyone who reads […]
Read More Guest Entry: And Justice For AllA decade. It’s quite the milestone. It is a decade ago that I held a small creature newly released into the world. It was the first time I had ever witnessed the birth of a baby. I recall holding her in my hands and tenderly singing her song in her ear. It’s true what they […]
Read More The Joy Of A DadOne of the things I admire my Dad for is his ability to keep calm about things. It was not a secret to him. The wisdom of it all was fairly straightforward for him and amounted to this. If he could do something about it, he would. If he couldn’t do anything about it, he […]
Read More Keeping CalmHome – Part One. There was a time when home was a place of familiarity for me. Then I left that home and spent the next few years appreciating the fact that home was more about key people providing the familiar in the strength of their character and the relational ties we had. Home then […]
Read More Grateful For … (13)Conversation. My wife and I do not always agree. Sometimes when we disagree it is a serious disagreement. Authrine won’t mind me writing that. (Authrine gives CD The Look.) What I love about our relationship at the moment, however, is the freedom for us to express ourselves and for us to react emotionally at first […]
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