2013 Archives – Page 19 of 19

We’ll always pay for our actions

Leave a Comment / New Vision, Newspaper columns / January 14, 2013 / 2013, African culture, African university life, corruption, corruption in Africa, responsibility, security, thievery, Uganda / 3 minutes of reading

(The New Vision – Monday, January 14, 2013)

KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ There are six of us around the table. We’re disturbed and talking about how to help. The place where we work and live and have friendships and worship with others is under attack.

Through 2012, this place, an educational institution, became, as one Ugandan said, “a den of thieves.” Then the new year had barely arrived when a campus home was broken into and robbed while its Ugandan family slept.

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Eat well, do well

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / January 14, 2013 / 2013, birthdays, breakfast, gifts, school life / 1 minute of reading

Being popular and oatmeal don’t seem to have a lot in common. But you have to know Hannah. My daughter, the one who is as black and beautiful as the night sky, turned seven the other day. She opted for her party to be in her classroom, which isn’t so uncommon here in Uganda at the

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Jon’s premarital woes continue

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / January 11, 2013 / 2013, dating, humour / satire, marriage, school life / 2 minutes of reading

So, they’re still at it, still after my son and asking for his hand in marriage – Agnes and Rainer – the two seven-year-old school girls who are flat out and deep into it, unable to control themselves because Jon, apparently, has everything that it takes. Faithful Reader will recall that the two girls both proposed

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What do you mean, ‘intact’?

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / January 10, 2013 / 2013, getting older, humour / satire, our Ugandan home, the nanny / 1 minute of reading

The photo, which had been shot for our engagement, has been on the wall of one home office or another: first the one in Yemen, and for some years now, our work space here in Uganda. My Bride and I are on the shore Lake Erie, just outside of St. Thomas where, in another life, I was

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Losing a father, finding peace

Leave a Comment / Other / January 9, 2013 / 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Today’s Daily Dad directs you to this poignant piece about losing a father, by Cathleen Falsani, with an excerpt from the Magnificent Defeat by my writing hero, Frederick Buechner. Thank you Cathleen. http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/12/21/its-end-world-we-know-it-and-i-feel-peace

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‘So, Daddy, it was here? It was right here?’

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / January 8, 2013 / 2013, boyhood memories, day trips, friendship, Maple Crest Park, Maple Crest School, soulfulness / 3 minutes of reading

Speaking of returning to places that are good for the soul, the earth of my elementary school is one such place, one that I bring the kids to when we’re back home in Canada. It’s become an annual affair, a day trip every summer that the three have all joined me on, but one that

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Taking your soul on a weekend getaway

2 Comments / Daily Dad / January 7, 2013 / 2013, childhood memories, family holidays, friendship, serendipity, ships, soulfulness, Welland Canal, writing / 2 minutes of reading

So we’re on a ferry going from Whidbey Island to the coast of Washington State. His name is Paul and he’s a writing colleague of mine, an American from Chicago who has the same name as my best friend when I was a boy. He and I are students studying an MFA in Creative Writing

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