on the edge of ordinary

The dominant theme in my week has been transition planning at work. Yes, I know, I've been thinking about this for months, and rightly s...

On Monday and Tuesday this week we attended our last interschool school sports event as parents. Yep, another one of the "lasts". ...

Is another wrestling post warranted? I do want to document that my youngest son was crowned Far East Champion of the 215 lb weight class on ...

Last week I wrote that hoped this week would be better, especially that I could get some traction on my work. I'm pleased to say that th...

Recently I was searching for something to listen to while I washed dishes.  I'm a restless person who struggles with just listening and ...

I've got some spare minutes and want to write here, but don't have any strong topic in mind. That's not good! I had a writing ...

It's coming to the end of another unusual week in our house and I'm feeling restless. I've had a couple of great topics for blog...

Yes, it's the first day of school . . . again. It's our third in 18 months. First last July in Australia, then when we returned he...

We've now made it over the end-of-year hump and are staring down the barrel at just over 10 weeks of holidays.  Actually, we're st...

These last weeks have been so busy! Our youngest son started at his old Australian school last Thursday. A lot of the busyness since we land...

Today we're celebrating 19 years of being parents.  Might sound a bit weird to you, but here's my reasoning. The other day I wa...

I'm sitting at Narita Airport typing this. I'm just a little early for checking in and our son hasn't arrived yet, so I thought ...