This is my first time to be a Little League parent. It has been a learning experience for my whole family, not just Zeke. We are half way through the season now and his team’s skill level has gone from bad to not as bad. We lose, a lot. In fact our team has won a single, solitary game [...]

1.  You find out all the “cool people” from high school turned out just like you did, absolutely average. : )  All those people who made you feel like a science experiment gone horribly wrong twenty years ago are now follicly challenged and expanded in the middle. They drive cars that have big payments and bald [...]

This morning I read Brian The Blog Prophet’s post requesting suggestions on how to make spiritual applications/illustrations from Zombie movies.  This by the way, is just one of the reasons that I read his blog.  He thinks outside the box, and I love those kinds of thinkers.
His question sent me down the path I am going [...]

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Yesterday my six and four year old sons were arguing. About what, who could say? It could have been whether the letter on an M&M is a M or W. I suspect the disagreement wasn’t even that logical given their past history.  I was honestly just trying to tune them out. Suddenly the conversation deteriorated  into the classic sibling quid pro [...]

I screw up.  A lot.  Way more than I would like to admit.  I start out with these fantastic, albeit unrealistic goals and then a few weeks later, my enthusiasm has fizzled out.  It happens.
Today I read something that sums up the past year of my life.  Written by Oprah Winfrey.   I am not a [...]