In the fall, I was asked to speak at a fundraising gala for an advocacy organisation. The topic was the value of people with special needs, specifically Down Syndrome. I obviously said yes. Only after I had said yes was […]
Talk about knowing how to ring in a new year. Last year, I was admitted to the hospital on January 1st and spent the first days of 2015 staring at the orange walls of a …
A thin dusting of snow covers the ravine turning the forest floor into a natural reflector of the light that is beginning to fill the sky. The sounds of King’s College Chapel’s Lessons and Carols service …
I haven’t been blogging much. I suppose it is because I feel this innate pressure to blog about Christmas but while I have been doing Christmas, I have been thinking about many other things, mostly, …
A couple of days ago, Jakob, my 8-year-old son, asked me if I believed in Santa Claus to which I replied, yes. This is not completely a lie, but my belief is perhaps more complex …
