Its 8am, Christmas Eve. 

We are seated at the breakfast table, Jesse and I. Mum's having a well deserved Sunday sleep in. 

Its been a tough week. 

New home... new town... new workplace. The unpacking and orientating is far from over. I am physically and mentally wearied b...

Its the last day of November. In a week, I will be celebrating my first anniversary as a homemaker. 

Its been a dramatic change, moving from life as a full time medical doctor to a homemaker/homedad. I have gone from meeting patients in clinics and attending to medical...

I met a pleasant middle aged man in clinic yesterday. 

He recently underwent a major surgery to remove a cancerous growth in his abdomen. His accounts suggested that he had a pretty tumultuous post-operative period, with several life-threatening surgical compl...

Two days ago I had a little medical emergency. 

Something got into my left eye. It was somewhat painful. I could not open the eye as the reflexes wouldn't allow me to. 

Silly me, I rubbed the eye and got myself into a bigger ordeal. After a flood of tears and a few...

It was 8.50 pm when we arrived at our hotel room in Auckland last Friday. 

Jesse did really, surviving a 2 hour journey without protest. Being a routine boy who sleeps at 7 pm daily, we were surprised at the fact that he did not sleep a  wink throughout the journey. The...

“Many who are  first will be last and many who are  last will be first” Matthew 19:30

I’m sitting in my living room, looking out of the window.

Beyond the deck, a green carpet spreads out across the garden, interrupted only by the barks of nascent flowering fruit tr...

Jesse was completely out of whack today. 

He hasn't been a 100%. Countless minor colds interspersed with painful ear infections this winter. 

Mummy's presence at home today seem to have made things worse. Clingy, needy, screaming, etc. Even his swimming lessons (whi...

The time is 9.40 pm. 

I am sitting on a cramped seat, on board a Qantas flight to Tassie. 

It's cattle class. The food is marginal. The audio device is malfunctioning. There's a baby crying. 

But I don't mind a single bit. It's good. It's all good. 

I think I would have re...

I can vividly recall one evening last year.

I was running... running through a large expanse of green, framed by rolling hills and the setting autumn sun. The daily jog through endless New Zealand beauty followed by a time of quiet reflection  is always a highlight...

It's been a long two weeks...  

I am sitting in front of my computer at the verge of giving up. I have felt this way several times before. But I feel am edging closer to the cliff this time.

I am struggling to remember what day it is today...plagued by the mate...