Some of my most deeply though-provoking, meaningful and life-altering conversations with my boys take place in less time than it takes to win a championship bull ride. They start with an open of the gate, and whether I’m ready for the ride or not, we’re off and running. Sometimes I’m able to dig in, hold […]
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Some days I just want to call her. And then I realize that even though she’s still #3 on my phone’s speed dial, it just can’t happen. There is no speed dial that will connect me with her now. There will come a day when you’re grown and out on your own that you wake
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When one child recently told me “not my job” when asked to do a household chore, and another told me “you are not the best anymore” when I was honoring what I’d said about not getting dessert without eating dinner first, it got me thinking…am I starting to become more your friend than your father?
Snapshots of what happens when daddy is left unsupervised with three kids for 4 hours: 1. NE sings songs like his daddy. Just because we forget the words, that’s no reason to stop singing. In complete rhythm and tune, without missing a beat: “Dancing through the snow…and I wonder what comes next.” 2. Passing the
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“For man certainly does not know his time: like fish caught in a cruel net, or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time, as it suddenly falls on them.” Ecclesiastes 9:12 I’m in awe. I just got back to the firehouse. Your mom brought the three of you…SD,
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As I write this, it’s been only two hours since the media has reported on the verdict in a “high profile” murder trial. A mother was accused of killing her 2 year old daughter. I didn’t follow the case very much in the news, because I have found that the media reports what they want,
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Summer. When you hear the word summer, the mind takes you down memory lane, and there are several activities that quickly come to mind that are forever associated with summer. For me, I remember spending almost every day at the pool. It was only 3 blocks from the house, well within walking distance, and we