The Daily Dad Blog
Hannah gets The Story
It’s just past 6 in the morning and Hannah is eating her toast and yoghurt, and from behind her I ...
Read More Forgiveness
We were in the car and Liz was looking rather thoughtful, the sort of look that kids have when you ...
Read More Oh, this snow and ice and crazy cold? Ask Jon.
Every good parent needs to scream at their kids regularly – I recommend five times a kid before lunch – ...
Read More This New Year, kick The Bucket List. Live the life. Play in the snow.
I don’t really believe in New Year resolutions or those Bucket Lists either, but I guess if I were to drop ...
Read More Mary, did you know?
She kept all these things in her heart. This is what the ancient Scripture tell us. Mary kept these things ...
Read More Hannah wants a Canadian (snow?) burial; Jon’s right on that
It’s 5 am and still dark outside, but with a bit of jet lag this is apparently the best time for ...
Read More Hannah sees the judge, Nelson Mandela smiles at us
It’s Entebbe, Uganda’s port of entry and departure, and we’re almost on a plane over the ocean and back to ...
Read More But officer, in my country red actually means ‘Go!’
When you go through a red light and get stopped for it in a foreign country, you should always pretend ...
Read More On Rob Ford, Ugandan chickens and having Nutella all over your face
We’re waiting for the morning bell to start the school day yesterday, Jon and I, him bouncing on my knee, and a ...
Read More Timothy Mugisha died in his mother’s arms
We arrived at the chapel to find Timothy’s casket sitting heavy at the entrance. This, yesterday morning when we had ...
Read More Lose your life, find your bliss
It’s the other day and we’re on the streets of Uganda, on the morning school run again, this time behind ...
Read More Hey, let’s shoot Dad!
So, it’s Day 15 of Single Daddin It’ and we’re at the dinner table, that place of ever-illuminating discussion, and ...
Read More My daughter the singing orphan (and an update on Timothy)
Of course our stories – your story, my story, the story of the drunk down in Apartment 8 –are all ...
Read More “The truth is, I am dying.”
We’re told that her mother and father where there, and so probably were the neighbours and her school friends, no doubt, and pretty ...
Read More Jean rocks Hamilton. So does the Spectator. (The kids? I think they’re in Congo)
It’s somewhere around Day 54,386 of Single Daddin’ It, the highlight of my year when it's just me and the kids. ...
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