Today is the seventh year wedding anniversary of the marriage of Authrine Elizabeth Burton and Christopher Luketon John Dryden. That marriage has been based on a love supreme. (So why didn’t I put that track on, eh? Wait for it.) that love is one that goes beyond affection and domestic bliss. It has lead to […]
Read More Charge It To My Head – CommissionedThe whole responsibility thing, isn’t all bad. I say that, because often the word responsibility doesn’t elicit shouts of joy and acclaim. Yet there are some real benefits to taking responsibilities seriously – some joyful benefits at that. I was reflecting on that today as I went about the domestic chores and family duties that […]
Read More On Personal ResolutionsYeah there’s the Jesus stuff which is very important to me. There is the church stuff, which is also very important. There are the ideas that knock around my head on other issues to talk about (for example I’m thinking about a series on All My Working Life). Yet from time to time it’s just […]
Read More Just Free-BloggingFinally we complete the mini-series that I’ve been writing about the family and my developing understanding of the this crucial foundation of society. It would be useful to summarise how I came to this point with a couple of dating scenarios. In January 1990 I was a 12 year old boy whose concept of family […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Where I Am NowBig things aren’t they? Weddings, funerals, christenings and those kind of things. A massive communal fuss is made at one cataclysmic moment, and then after that we get on with life. So it was last Saturday when people were made aware of the presence of yet another Dryden Daughter. (As it happens, strictly speaking, from […]
Read More A Week In The Life of Zoë DrydenI don’t believe I’ve shared the history of me and driving and I reckon it might be worth your while reading it as it forms a good part of this entry. Driving comes across to me as a crucial part of a rite of passage from being a child to being an adult. Whenever the […]
Read More Taking Me For A Ride – Part OneSo I was there minding my own business, just got home from seeing the wife for another day. She was scheduled to be going to the delivery suite but like the second coming of the Messiah no one knew the hour that this would take place. Yet no sooner had I settled down to some […]
Read More How’s Authrine And the BabyWait for it. No seriously, you’ll still have to wait for it. If you told me that I would have been putting a four part series on monitoring Authrine’s condition then I would have laughed in your face. (Although if you’d have told me it would have got that many more views on the blog […]
Read More How’s Authrine Watch – Part FourIn this extended update on what’s going with Authrine we have indepth analysis into everything that’s been going on in her situation. Nothing. All that to say things are scheduled to be kicking off real soon, indeed it has to because of the timing of things and what the medical experts have said on the […]
Read More How’s Authrine Watch – Part ThreeOK from the top, this is not what you’ve been waiting for. The popping has not taken place … yet. Here’s how it all went down. Mrs Dryden, in the hospital scheduled to be delivering over the initial 24 hours since she was admitted to hospital. Well that didn’t work out despite some contractions on […]
Read More How’s Authrine Watch – Part Two
Life With CD 