I sometimes remember two situations in my past where someone said something unkind to me. I rewind the moments like a movie in my mind. I continue wondering how I messed up and caused someone to say unkind things (yup, I apparently have issues). Or I think about what I could have said in the […]
Trust Your Voice
Dear Hijo, Last night you performed at the spring program for your preschool. You performed wonderfully! After the second of three songs you politely interrupted your teacher saying you needed to use the bathroom. She told you to go and even waited for your return before starting the final song to perform. I am so […]
Unsubscribe
I admit it. I’m terrible about keeping my email tidy – especially my personal email. I also tend to allow junk to flood my inbox rather than unsubscribe from email lists. Is it really worth getting three emails a day from Old Navy to not miss a coupon or sale, especially when I only purchase […]
Boring Life
If you ask me, stories make the world go round. When people gather, stories inevitably appear. I don’t claim to portray the best stories, but I do enjoy telling one once in a while. A friend recently observed that all my best stories come from the days when I worked in a worked a group […]
In 30 Years
My parents own a farm in Montana. Last year we took a vacation there with extended family to do some work around the 100 year old farmhouse. We partially split time between doing some improvements around the house and simply enjoying one another. We had a great time spending time with family and enjoying a […]
I Don’t Want to be the Mom
Last Summer Esposa and I took Hijo to the park. He quickly found a group of kids playing and joined them. As we observed the play, it appeared to be some sort of hybrid game of tag and house. While I watched, I heard a girl yell out in an exasperated voice “I don’t want […]
Loving in a New Way
Dear Esposa, We made it! Thirteen years of marriage sometimes feels like a lifetime. Yet sometimes feels like a mere blink of an eye. I still love you. Granted, I love you differently than I used to. I know we’ve talked about CS Lewis’s concept that if people’s initial romantic love and all the crazy […]
Waiting with Significance
I have a friend who had been looking to buy a new (to him) bike for months. I was close enough to the situation to hear most of the ups and downs. I saw many listings of potential bikes he’d come across on Craigslist and elsewhere. Finally after about six months of searching he found […]
The Amazing Jump
Hijo recently turned five years old. Five is a big deal. He’s no longer an infant fully dependent on us. Or a toddler mostly dependent on us. And he’s quickly on his way to no longer even being a preschooler, but a full-fledged kindergartener. As he turned five, I wanted to do something significant to […]
Passover Sunday
I have worked on Sunday mornings in my day job for over six years. In that time I distinctly remember taking off three Sundays. One was unplanned and came after sleeping overnight in the Denver airport chapel due to a cancelled flight (with my wife and our 18 month old!) then catching a new flight […]