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.
Much Thanks
I'm fortunate this year that life has slowed down enough for me to give serious thought to what I'm thankful for: - A house that's…
Story Telling Made Simple
The five words that can strike fear in any father’s heart at bedtime: “Daddy, tell me a story.” At the end of a long and…
Coping with the Chaos
In a previous post, I wrote about my neglect in reading parenting books. Since then, I have atoned, but my reading list has become rather…
The Movie with a Thousand Questions
It started innocently enough. I introduced my five-year-old daughter to Star Wars Legos on the Wii. I figured that it would be a fun activity…
The Home Team
When I was six years old, my father worked with a man from Texas. His son had outgrown his Dallas Cowboys jacket, and it was…
Time Away
I have been on TDY (temporary duty) this week, attending a training course in Tampa. It’s the equivalent of a business trip in the civilian…
The Case for Learning a New Language
I was in Washington, D.C. last week participating in a conference at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, a section of the National Defense University…
No, the other Doctor Spock…
When I found out my new job would involve the Caribbean, my first step was to pull up Amazon to find books on the region's…
Turning Corners
As a father, I am often relieved when a corner is turned in the development of my children. When the baby finally sleeps through the…
Father, Sailor, Citizen 