The best way I can describe myself that day is as ready as I’d ever be. I’m an Enneagram 1, which means I’m a perfectionist who pays attention to detail and believes the world is a meritocracy that rewards precise, hard work. It also means I care too much what other...
Smokey the Bear would have been so ashamed. A number of years ago my wife and I took my youngest brother and several of his compadres into the woods for an adventure. Though we were outnumbered by teenage boys 3 to 1, I figured if we had enough to eat we had a good...
The story was a complete fabrication, and I was livid. It was one of my wife’s favorite farm stands. It was small, local, and owned by an old man with a white beard and a big belly who somewhat resembled Santa Claus when he was out of uniform. He was friendly,...
Moms are tactical. They didn’t have to try out, get selected, go to a training class, wear extra-medium t-shirts, tactical pants with a hundred pockets, carry a backpack covered in morale patches, or grow a tactical beard. Nope. After they birthed a small human...
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