This comic is in honor of my little sister, Denise. Amazing how such a rotten little sister could have grown up to be such a wonderful adult (and friend). Here’s a strip version of the same comic. Which do you like better? Here’s the last example, I promise: [...]

It appears that our family blog has been hacked by malicious teenagers. It’s full of cute kitten photos, drawings and even an animation of a chicken crossing the road. The truth is my kids are now blogging. Believe it or not I didn’t put them up to this. Their mother thought it would be a [...]

My last name is spelled with one ‘r.’ The reason for keeping this straight should be obvious. A simple survey of images on Google should immediately highlight the difference: “David [...]

Here’s a video of our family singing Ragtime Cowboy Joe. I hope you enjoy this glimpse of life in our home at Christmas! Merry Christmas to all my bloggy buddies. It’s been quite a year!

Happy anniversary, baby! (We were married in ‘92 but Hilary thinks this photo is from ‘93 or ‘94.) Image: This little picture has traveled with us all over the world. For another old photo see here: 1992 For the story of how we met: Eugene 1992

Image: Our family photo taken in Oregon, August 1997 before leaving for Portugal.    The dark character of the Portuguese soul was evident everywhere we turned in Lisbon. The shoe stores only carried stiff leather shoes in black or brown. The standard Lisboeta breakfast was consumed standing up at a little [...]

Last night we watched Back to the Future for our Friday night movie. Hilary and I quickly realized that there was a lot more cussing in this movie than we remembered. What is the technical term for forgetting naughty parts of a movie and only discovering them after you’re sitting down to [...]

A friend sent me this today. Click the image for more resources at http://whatadifference.samhsa.gov/.

I found a good article on this topic: Dr. Leslie’s top 10 tips : keeping kids safe online. She includes these guidelines: 1. Understand the dangers. Many parents were shocked to recently learn the stiff laws against minors and “sexting”, some not understanding the severity until it was too [...]

This made me reminisce about when my sister and I were sent to the mines strawberry fields as little children. Slaving under the hot sun. Bologna sandwiches. The constant threat of being pelted by a rotten red missile. Those were the good old days. Yesterday Hilary and I went with the [...]

I’m in the process of setting up a new system for sending out our missionary newsletter, the Ker Family Update. If you’ve commented on this blog in the past you will get an invitation to subscribe. If you don’t get an invitation and would like to subscribe, visit this page: http://lingamish.com/mail. Our mailing list [...]

Our Land Rover overheated unexpectedly on our return journey from Nampula. When you leave Nampula, you embark on a 600-kilometer journey in no-man’s land with only two sizeable towns. Back in 2006 we had a series of tire blowouts on this stretch of road including a collapsed jack. While I was opening up [...]