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Holiday Refreshment and Reflection

Holiday Refreshment and Reflection

Well, for those who still get one, Christmas break approaches! Enjoy if that's you! 🙂 For many, this time of year is one of refreshment and reconsideration. As such, I wanted to offer a refreshing change in the form of a guest blog author, as he calls us to consider a more fulfilling life heading...

The Best Birthday Build-up!

The Best Birthday Build-up!

And just like that, we're in the Christmas countdown! However, in our extended family, December also brings a vastly disproportionate number of birthdays than the rest of the year. Truly, a month of concentrated, supercharged gift-giving fun! As we travel around to myriad birthday or holiday...

The Art of Wrestling with Dad

The Art of Wrestling with Dad

So if you know me at all or have read even a short part of my Healing Hereafter ebook series, you'll have picked up that I'm kinda Type-A and like to have things neatly arranged and thought out. But today I'm thinking about politics, and we're not gonna get deep into that! Instead, I'll focus on...

Be with the People You’re with

Be with the People You’re with

It was a blast from the past. Last week I was walking through my fourth grader's school, seeing his first locker, and sitting on a tiny stool that hadn't fit my backside for 30 years. His teacher described her vision for the year, and I wondered how on earth a person got 22 preteens to do anything...

Only Teach if You’re Willing to Learn

Only Teach if You’re Willing to Learn

TikTok, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and probably being cool...all things I've learned from young people. As the new school year approaches, a new class is coming to college, and soon I will meet many of them and be shocked how baby-faced some of them are. Except for that one freshman each fall...

Getting Your Best Beach Bod

Getting Your Best Beach Bod

These are clearly not me, and I may not be the world's foremost authority on this topic. My youngest son agrees with unfortunate consistency every time he tells me how much he loves my pudge. Better than hating it, I suppose! Either way, I can't and shouldn't measure this summer specimen of mine...

Four Phrases for Father’s Day

Four Phrases for Father’s Day

Here I am, about to celebrate this special day of dadding by preparing for a 17-hour mini-van trip around Lake Michigan! Exotic, you say? Well, yes, the endless construction and Wisconsin shoreline are quite lovely. No sarcasm at all. And although being pampered on a giant recliner throne while...

Be Thankful for What?

Be Thankful for What?

With the weather warming and all of us getting outside, there are so many things we can now see, hear, smell, and feel to be thankful for. Especially now that most of my spring yard work is behind me! Counting our blessings comes easy to us in spring, when cabin fever no longer renders them...

The Good Kind of Dependence

The Good Kind of Dependence

The Auto-feeder! Baby not included. Many of the young adults I've worked with are now at the age where they're having kids of their own...one just last week in fact! This brings back lots of precious baby memories and makes me head right for our family photos. And I found a gem I had forgotten...

The Wisdom of Our Youngers

The Wisdom of Our Youngers

TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, texting, and even Facebook are all things I've learned from young people. Snapchat was a hard pass. And as I meet new groups of students each year, I never cease to be amazed by how their lingering childhood informs our adulthood. As ancient as I sometimes feel, I...

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