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.
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…
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 