Tim is UK-based writer of all things family, faith and adventure.
Writing this piece made me nervous. I felt odd, even slightly guilty, for celebrating monogamous marriage as something profoundly good for individuals, families and society. Worse still, that it really might be okay to marry your sweetheart from high school.
By Tim Boxer4 years ago in Humans
Taking control is the shortest path to a feeling of contentment and peace... until another human shows up. This other human has their own will (shock, horror) that is different to yours (hooray), and they want to try it out in the garden of your life!
By Tim Boxer4 years ago in Families
After googling a particular track by rap artist 'Ty', I was shocked to discover he died of Covid last year, aged 47. I've never followed him that closely and the last time I listened to him was 18 months ago. But yesterday, I found myself wanting to submerge into the steady thumps and flicks of a track I couldn't even remember the name of. I found it - Let's Start - and with it the sad news.
By Tim Boxer4 years ago in Beat
I’ve been trying to work out why the first six or seven times I watched this video it reduced me to a blubbering mess. Each time I felt it penetrating into something largely untapped but desperate, in my soul, and I think it is this: to see my own generation defying how we are commonly identified (as narcissists), and leading *each other* in an act of abandon to Yahweh.
The propeller wash is knocking back my braids as I step onto the baking tarmac runway. Mum, Dad and Missy are behind me, but they are silent.
By Tim Boxer5 years ago in Humans
I’m thirty-four and I have eight children aged between one and fourteen. Most of my learning as a parent has been unexpected, and I’ve often felt like someone winning the lottery or performing CPR for the first time; in the twinkling of an eye I’ve faced brand new privileges that require responsibility that far outweighs my experience. Through all this I have discovered a hidden elixir perfect for surviving family life, especially crises, which I'll explain in a moment.
By Tim Boxer5 years ago in Families
My pen presses hard onto the paper and I write: "Once upon a time there was a little black book." I stop and grimace remembering what Parker had taught us only last semester. “Never start with ‘in the beginning!” he’d declared, scratching out a list of Better Beginnings on the blackboard.
