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What Do You Know?

the winding path of learning (photo by silviarita on Pixabay) As a parent, I want to admit that I love being surprised by my teenagers, whether I am surprised by a gift they give me, a drawing they choose to share with me, or when I realize they know way more about...

A Daily Dose of Chocolate

It is my professional opinion that everyone experiences important health benefits when consuming dark chocolate. Those benefits apply to both physical and mental health, from improving blood flow and helping with lowering blood pressure, providing some important...

Making the Mundane Extraordinary

There are times when I identify way more with Walter Mitty than I care to admit. Specifically, I am talking about the 2013 film version starring Ben Stiller for the way the movie removes the hen-pecked spouse angle and imbues James Thurber’s original short story with...

Bad Hair Days Made Better

Confession: sometimes I would rather do anything than take a shower and wash my hair. I would more readily do laundry or clean the bathroom or have to do all of my Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve Day than expend the energy necessary to wash my hair (the showering...

They Have My Heart, No Matter What

In honor of Valentine’s Day, a day of which I am not a huge fan, I thought it might be fun to consider the ways these two amazing teenagers of ours have my heart—no matter what. Perhaps the greatest influence for this blogging series is God’s love for me. Christians...