• New Years

    A New Year, with the same old problems. As an update – after Christmas things improved with the visitors (my brother, his girlfriend and her son). I would say that the last two days they were around finally felt like some bonding was taking place. They stayed with the family until New Years Eve. At…

  • Busy times

    I can’t believe it’s Christmas eve. It doesn’t even feel like it should be the Christmas season. Odd. Less this year than I can ever remember it feeling. My brother is in town. He, his girlfriend and her 22 year old son. They traveled here from WA to spend a day with us before leaving…