And empathy to those who do not. I have an ambivalent relationship with the parent days. I’ve lost both mine so these days forever remind me of that fact. And while I’m a parent too, it’s such a joy it…
Balance beam. As the family photographer it fell to me to attend Mallory’s last gymnastics class. She had an ear to ear grin on during the entire class. Except when she was really focussed. Of all the activities we put…
So today marked the finale of a two year campaign to re-design, re-engineer and re-everything the flagship website where I work. And after the most excruciating day of bickering about DNS changes, being incredulous about block translation bugs, and general…
My mother, Wilhelmina Jansen, passed away April 4. My partner Chris Lawson wrote a beautiful tribute to my mother and put together the slideshow above. My sister Ann has written a longer more detailed biographical note [Link fixed]. Below you…
Friends and family of my father, Michael Lawson are holding a memorial service for him at “the farm” Saturday August 11 at 1pm. All who knew him or know his family are welcome to attend. Please contact me privately for…
Out of hospital, back at home. With a couple more bottles of pills, two, possibly three appointments to line up and a whack of new gadgets – oxygen dispensing – to keep him busy. Failing health is a full time…
So both Sheila and I are at the stage in our lives where we don’t get hugely thrilled about marking the passage of time. But nonetheless, I thought I would take this opportunity to say how fabulous she is. As…