The Sleep of the Teens

After we had our girls, I began to wonder why it is we respond to the question regarding how we slept last night with the phrase, I slept like a baby because I came to understand that babies do not tend to sleep through the night. In fact, they are not supposed to...

Whispers in the Distance

Do you recall your teenage years? I don’t know about you, but mine definitely had moments that can be described as tumultuous. The journey of the teenage years is fraught with such moments, those times when we need to determine where we begin apart from our parents....

A Dash of Fun

For many years I have followed a writer and speaker, Jon Acuff, whose books and talks focus not only on setting goals, but on actually achieving them. For some of those years I participated in several of Jon’s webinars and Facebook groups and both were filled with...

A Small Eclipse of the Heart

It seemed like it was finally time. For at least a year before it was finally time the girls had asked about whether they could get a pet and we talked about getting them each a fish—a good starter pet. Still, it took us another year after those initial conversations...

Those Things They Do…and Love

Back in 1996 Tom Hanks made his film writing and directorial debut with the film, That Thing You Do, which follows the fictional 1964 rock band, The Wonders, and their rollercoaster ride of stardom and its pitfalls both professionally and personally. As they attempt...