Was going through some old pictures this past weekend and I came across some of my dog Denali. 🙂 I wish you could have met her! She was the first dog my wife and I...
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Running for My Life
These past few weeks have been tough…like really tough. Several things amassed around me, spawning a kind of unholy vortex that simply wore me down. I wasn’t angry or frustrated with any particular person,...
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Will You Dance With Me?
A couple nights ago, I had some YouTube music videos playing in the background as I worked. Wouldn’t you know it, one of the songs my wife and I “claim” came on. Do you...
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Sculpting with the Mancub
So my kids have this cool, kinetic sand they use to sculpt and make all kinds of things. As I’m trying to put a little bit of dinner together one night last week, all...
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Holding the Hand of a Dying Man
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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