It was time to get a haircut. You just know it. There is hair on the back of your neck and you can’t get your hair to comb correctly anymore. You look – in a word – scruffy. Now, I usually dread this ordeal ever since retiring from the Army. “Why?” You ask. The reason...
“Dad, we don’t have any water.” It was 6:30 AM our time, 10:00 PM her time—in Korea—halfway around the world. “Nothing is coming out of the kitchen sink or any of the other pipes. It’s also minus 20 degrees centigrade and the apartment is heated with water. What can...
At 4:00 a.m. on 23 December, little Rachel, seven years old, came into our bedroom complaining of a stomach ache. However, this was not usual. She was in severe pain. I had not seen one of my children in such pain. She had been complaining of a stomach ache for the...
About 2 years after my wife and I were married, we were asked by a family to baby sit their small children for a week while their father and mother went out of town. We also had a small baby of our own who wasn’t yet a year old. With their children and ours, we would...
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