My mom is one of the best cook’s that I know. To this day, she makes mostly everything without a recipe. This goes for everything from casseroles, to cookies, to carrot cakes to pies. When I was a kid, my mom always made chocolate cake with brown sugar frosting. Without fail I would HAVE to…
Twenty years ago, Connie and I held a little boy that would change our world. We were two twenty-somethings that thought we had it all…not to mention knew it all. We lived in the suburbs of Chicago and had good friends that were also new parents. Grandmas and Grandpas were only a 5 hour car…
Once I’m in the parking lot or my company’s office, I send the message to Connie. “Safely at Work. I love you.” I’ve only been sending this message for the last year and a half. The first sentence, that is. 🙂 Over the last 4 years, most of my previous jobs entailed working from home….
Let me know what you think of my new logo. A new friend of mine created it for me. Many people have asked me, “how do you do it?” “how do you remain so positive and upbeat?”. I’ve struggled with this answer for years. You see, I want to give an answer that gives someone…
Over the last 12 months a lot has changed for me. I’m sure that it has for you too. The rollercoaster of life has made me nauseous. Some days I just want to step off. Some days I crave it like a drug. Some days I want it all to go away. Some days I…
My youngest son, Colin, competed in the Middle School Track & Field State Championship this weekend. He ran in the first race of the day during a sun-soaked event in Central Ohio. He was the third-leg of his school’s 4x800m track team. They ran very well and came in second overall. Colin’s second event came…
To my daughter, Jessica. It was ten years ago today that she had balloon-angioplasty at the tender age of six. She came into this world with three heart defects which required surgery. This surgery was required to let her scar tissue grow like she did. We should have known how much she would change our…
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine…
Perspective matters. When you live in a two-dimensional-world, perspective matters even more. Perspective helps me tell how far I am from other cars, where a hand is that I’m about to shake, when I’m close enough to the drive-up ATM. it even helps me determine the lengths that I need to go to in order…
There is the Fool’s Way, there is the way of the disillusioned ‘Sensible Man’ and then there is the Christian way of handling those things in life that lose their novelty. Remember from Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis, when he wrote. “There was something we grasped at, in that first moment of longing, which just fades away…
