The Parsonal Computer

Memories of Dad

In His Shoes

What Dad’s Can’t Do

When In Trouble, Call Dad

While kayaking in southern England off the island of Wight, Mark Ashton-Smith, a 33-year-old lecturer at Cambridge University, capsized in treacherous waters.  Clinging to his craft and reaching for his cell phone, Ashton-Smith’s first inclination was to call his father. It didn’t matter to the desperate son that his dad, Alan Pimm-Smith, was at work [...]

Love Words

Don’t Stop Talking About It

  Some years ago, the comic strip “Small Society” showed a man talking to his wife. He is saying, “Of course you’re my valentine. Of course I still love you. I’ve just stopped talking about it.” I believe that this is a problem in a lot of marriages today. It’s a problem because, when we [...]