How To Eat An Elephant

How To Eat An Elephant

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...
Burnout

Burnout

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...
A Series of Firsts: My First Complaint

A Series of Firsts: My First Complaint

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,...
Tactical Moms And How They Operate

Tactical Moms And How They Operate

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...