Who Gets the Best of You?
I was giving work my all: all my energy, my devotion, my humor, and my limited amounts of extroversion, with nothing leftover for the ones who loved me the most.
When Life Gives You Lemonade
This is my first blog post in over four years. The break in writing was due the demands of work, school, and family, as well…
Familiarity Breeds Tolerance
In a previous post, I wrote about the type of adults my wife and I want our children to be when they grow up. One of the…
The Books I Haven’t Read
"My library was dukedom large enough" William Shakespeare There must be a word, in a language somewhere, to describe the conflicting feelings a bibliophile experiences…
The Ground Beneath Us
We’d made it. After a long day of driving from Phoenix, a quick dip in the hotel pool at the insistence of my son, and eating…
A Letter to My Younger Self
This post is inspired by Bryan Trottier's "Letter to Myself" Although I've never met him, I had the privilege of serving with his son-in-law on a…
The Transition Home
At the dinner table the other night, our three-year-old reported that her class had cupcakes at preschool that day, to celebrate the birthday of one…
A Letter To My Ten-Year-Old Daughter
My sweet girl, I want you to know that your mother and I see everything you do. We see you helping with little things around…
No Small Parts
"Your daughter is upset." A few months back, my wife greeted me with these words as I came home from work. "She didn't…
Instilling Traits and Values: Starting With the End in Mind
I wrote in a previous post that one of the ways my military career has influenced my parenting is the idea of “starting with the…
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Father, Sailor, Citizen 