R completed her first year of school! hurray! to celebrate the end of year, her class invited us to a tea where the children served their parents. i was impressed. last day of school!
R’s first school concert! it was so fun to watch and enjoy their little performance. she was really cute in her tutu and borrowed ballet slippers which kept falling off. R even managed to remember her one french line: “on a un message!”. the children prepared gifts for their parents. love these!
i remember loving professional days when i was a kid. now i’m an adult, and i still do! on R’s day off from school we took a field trip to visit daddy at work. first on our exciting list of things to do… take the bus! ackland museum… which took a whole 15 minutes before read more
today was graduation day!! after nine years of sweat and tears (literally), we returned to chicago for joseph to receive his doctorate degree. on our way to campus, walking through hyde park. kind of a funny sight, but i suppose hyde parkers are used to it. people on the street were calling out congratulations! waiting read more
The Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago has a new special exhibit on the invention(s) of writing. The reason I mention this is because I contributed an article (on the beginnings of alphabetic writing) to the museum catalogue, which is available for free download (click on the image below to follow the link): read more
A number of weeks ago I gave a talk on campus on “The Biblical Creation in its Ancient Near Eastern Context,” dealing with the interpretation of the creation story in Genesis 1. In the hopes of reaching a wider audience, today it’s being posted on BioLogos.org, a prominent website dealing with matters of faith and read more
i guess it’s appropriate that we spent the labor day long weekend moving into our new home. joe was recently given the opportunity to pastor our small church here in hyde park while he finishes his phd program at university of chicago. and so we will also be living in the parsonage, which is part read more
we’ve been very busy lately. among other things, joe is taking an intensive introductory arabic course, and i wrote my US family practice board exam today, which kind of put things on hold while studying for it. i’m hoping it will be my last exam for the forseeable future, assuming i pass. happily, my mom read more
today i attended hamburger university. seriously, that is what it’s called; the training facility on the 80 acre campus of McDonald’s Corporation which is located in a suburb of chicago. i was there for a medical conference… not to learn about big macs, of course. however i did pick up a nutrition facts pamphlet and read more
it was time to put away the christmas tree, but our closet was already quite full. i was kind of amazed at how much stuff we had accumulated over a year. in particular, the number of bags i had recycled…it really didn’t look that way inside the closet.