Yesterday morning I woke up with a sharp little pain in my right thumb. I couldn’t figure out what was causing it and it wasn’t bad enough to make me want to do anything about it, so I just ignored it, hoping it would go away. This [...]

The dining table was returned last night – as you can see in the photo, it’s been shined and polished to a high gloss and we can now see our faces in it. Please note the decorated chair. The table was returned just in time for [...]

Our dining table is gone for repairs and polishing. When I sent it off, I was told it would be back in three or four days. It’s been five so far, but it feels a lot longer. We are one of the only families I know that sits down together at [...]

Every parent loves a sleeping child. And a sick sleeping child even more so. Moy Moy has pneumonia again – it’s a regular winter event and we have gotten better at dealing with it each passing year, handling the chest physio, the [...]

Today I walked to the market listening to music – something I almost never do here because you really need to have all your senses on high alert to make it through the streets in one piece. Today, though, I was listening to Leonard [...]

What a great invention! A wheelchair is one of the truly life-changing design ideas, and whoever invented it should get a medal. It certainly has made our lives better, and I know that is true for millions of other people as well.That said, [...]

Gather the children from across the seven seas. Get everybody dressed in different shades of blue and green. Find a sunny spot to pose in with yellow windows in the background. Get the youngest out of her wheelchair and into a normal one. Smile.