I frantically searched my mind, trying to decode what he was doing and then it hit me…he was using sign language that means “I love you.” During one of my shifts last week, I...
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WWIII With a Side of Tacos
Cruise Missiles and ICBMs of scorn, aggravation, and ridicule rained down on all 6 of us just like in the old school Missile Command game. One Weary Father Being a father of four, I’m...
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Personal Space? Eh, Who Needs It :-)
This past Friday, guess what? I was summoned to work with a class of 2nd and 3rd graders in the Afterschool program. I was excited because Fridays are my absolute favorite day to serve!...
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Daddies & Daughters, Dances & Dreams
A couple nights ago, between doing the YMCA (hard to imagine, I know), the Cupid Shuffle (hopefully no one videoed that) and the Conga Line (have mercy) with my daughter, I had opportunities here...
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‘Til Death Do Us Part…
I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with a dear lady whose husband was to pass away soon. As I quietly sat with her in the dimly lit hospital room, our lengthy...
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How Story-Telling Saved My Life
Okay, maybe a slight exaggeration, but… Yesterday, I stood in front of a group of highly distracted, slightly moody pre-teens in afterschool care and well, what can I say…it was a bit rough. Each...
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Of Ice and Shadows
I started out my sleepy Monday morning work routine at the church emptying and re-bagging six outdoor trashcans spread throughout the campus. “Gonna have to do this quick,” I muttered to myself as I...
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Breaking Bad…but How?
Ahh, January, January, January…the month of the year whose beginning is so highly anticipated and celebrated by most everyone, but whose duration quickly becomes buried in the “meh”-ness of returning to the same, tired...
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Window, Window on the Wall…
I’ve now been working at a part time job for a little over a month and I’ve finally discovered my favorite place on this entire colossal campus. It’s not the porch swings that dot...
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Windshields and Rear-View Mirrors
Well, friends…this is it! 2018 is now just a few hours from officially becoming a series of memories in your heart…a completion of the newest chapters in the best-selling story of your life. For...
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