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The strange death of Godwin Chepkurgor, and saying a prayer for an African marriage.

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / August 6, 2014 / 2014, African dowries, dangers of journalism in Africa, dowries, friendship, Godwin Chepkurgor, our Ugandan home, proposal to Chelsea Clinton, the children's babysitter / 3 minutes of reading

Getting married, not to mention being a journalist, in Africa has its cultural quirks, and dangers, as evidenced by the recent strange death of journalist Godwin Chepkurgor, who was apparently just killed by a herd of bull elephants while on assignment for a Kenyan publication. This sort of thing happens in Africa once in a […]

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Why I support a longer school day

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / April 8, 2014 / 2014, friendship, good parenting techniques, humour / satire, length of school days, school life, sexuality, Ugandan children, Ugandan school days, Ugandan school life / 3 minutes of reading

It’s dinner time and once again the kids just HAVE to talk about sex, which is quite remarkable considering the only Miley Cyrus they watch is from the days when she was a fully-clothed Hannah Montana who kept her tongue to herself. Of course, the best way to end any kids’ sex talk is to

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Celebrating hockey GOLD in Africa

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / February 24, 2014 / 2014, Canada's gold medal hockey team, friendship, hockey, hockey in Africa, hockey in Uganda, humour / satire, morning coffee, Our friends in Uganda, our Ugandan home, Team Canada, Team Uganda 2018 / 2 minutes of reading

The thing about winning Gold in an Olympic event over and over and over and (YAWN) over is that you might start to assume that it’s your birthright, which, I suppose, this one, uh, kid, with the red shirt thinks. You forget all the work involved and your belly gets flabby and you won’t want to even walk the dog

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The best first date ever

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / February 18, 2014 / 2014, dating, first dates, first meetings, friendship, journalism and dating, men and women, relationships, unexpected dates / 4 minutes of reading

Speaking of Valentine’s Day and happenings like this Best Marital Proposal Ever, maybe the only other thing to say is this. We think we’re in charge of our lives, and in a way we are. We’re in charge of what side of the bed we may get out of in the morning and what sort of

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Timothy Mugisha died in his mother’s arms

2 Comments / Daily Dad / December 4, 2013 / 2013, cancer, death, eternity, friendship, funerals, God's love, God's nature, life after death, our Ugandan home, soulfulness, suffering, Timothy Mugisha / 4 minutes of reading

We arrived at the chapel to find Timothy’s casket sitting heavy at the entrance. This, yesterday morning when we had walked down the familiar green hill to the chapel, the university chapel of dark wood and century-old brick, a place the children have known as Sunday school for some years, a place now to say

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How chummy sleepovers can go awry

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / September 19, 2013 / 2013, boyhood memories, friendship, humour / satire, names, our Ugandan home, sleepovers / 3 minutes of reading

It was all set, I was told. Chris had invited me over for the night. Which was fine, because Chris was a cool dude, a buddy with a sort of bowl-cut who lived just down the hill, and, after that, just up the hill. We loved to play hockey together, so much that once I

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A good deal all around

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / January 16, 2013 / 2013, friendship, jewelry / 1 minute of reading

‘Daddy, Daddy!’ Liz could barely contain herself. I was reading. She was going up on her tip-toes, up and down, excited, reaching forward and touching me on the arms and Daddy, Daddy! She could get four earrings and two bracelets for 5,000 shillings. That’s about two dollars. The lady was selling all sorts of things,

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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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