Spoiler Alert
As you may have been following, I am now a fan – or at least a willing spectator – of Formula 1. So here I am at the airport waiting for a delayed flight and thinking I may have time Read More …
Category: parenting
Just Be Nice
It is easy to say and harder to do… but, if you can pull it together, be mature and just be nice. I am serious about this. Life is too short to deal with petty complaints. She did this. He Read More …
The Shoemaker
Sometimes, even though you don’t make shoes, let alone a product of any kind, you are the shoemaker. Sometimes being barefoot is just the way it has to be. Hopefully, your family understands. You have to make tough choices and Read More …
Learn Discuss Debate
It is time to learn, discuss, debate with… An adequate depth of study; A healthy amount of the discourse; Fair and civil debate; To eventually, hopefully decide. It doesn’t always happen this way. Sometimes the learning takes so long that Read More …
Funny The Little Things
It’s funny the little things that we keep… On our minds In our houses Remembering Reading again and again Saying out loud Quoting to others Hold on to the memories, habits and practices that make life better. But, really, it’s Read More …
All The Chocolate
As a child, today was a day when you could eat all the chocolate and jelly beans you wanted – before breakfast (and even at church if you didn’t drop any and give away the secret!) We thought they were Read More …
What’s Next
You have done what you set out to do…now, what’s next is a likely question. Something as (or more) interesting. Something that you will enjoy. Something a bit more challenging. Something as different as it can be. Maybe it will Read More …
Rainy Day Binging
Spring weekends are awesome. Even if it is cold and wet… you can spend a rainy day binging the shows that everyone told you about all month. The ones that you haven’t had the time to watch because the weather Read More …
May As Well
You may as well decide to do it. There is an upside. More time together, with a better opportunity to talk. A chance to listen even more closely, maybe. Solve the problems. Help the people. Do the thing you know Read More …
Totally Sounds Familiar
That story you’re telling me…yes, it totally sounds familiar. I’ve been there, for all of the parenting experiences of like kinds. Those of us, who were in the room, have all had that exact scenario – or very, very much Read More …