The Social Media Cleanse
There are parts of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter that I still miss and other parts that I absolutely do not miss at all!
Self Improvement
Parenting
The Rituals of Parenthood
I think one of the hardest rituals for any parent to master is bedtime…
Creativity, Fun Stuff, Parenting
Why We Love Legos!
One of the things that I appreciate the most about Legos is simply how they’re a toy that can really be so many different things to different people…
Life Lessons, Parenting
To Teach My Boys How to Be Men…
If it’s my job as a father to prepare my sons for the world, teaching them to respect women seems like a given…
Fun Stuff
Keep Cruising with You All Through the Year…
If only there was a way to keep some of those cruising feelings alive back at home – now that would be something, wouldn’t it?!
Life Lessons
Things I’ve Learned From 10 Years of Marriage…
I wanted to share some insight into the marriage that my wife and I share that I’ve collected over the years in hopes that maybe it will help others to enjoy a long and joyful marriage like I have…
Life Lessons
In the Wake of Evacuating for a Hurricane…
My family weighed the pros and the cons, and eventually came to the realization that for our own situation it made more sense for us to leave … which was really, really hard…
Creativity, Life Lessons
Giving Yourself Permission to Take a Break
As we grow older, we tend to acquire new responsibilities along the way that often have a way of edging former priorities off to the sidelines…
Life Lessons
Don’t Have a Miserable Walt Disney World Vacation!
They’re the folks who are shocked to discover that Florida gets really hot during the summer, and that they’re going to have to wait in lines at a theme park…
Creativity
The Ultimate Compliment for a Writer’s Ego
It took me a couple of days of thinking back on the statement to realize what she was actually telling me – the simple fact that not everyone is cut out to be a storyteller…
Self Improvement
There’s Nothing Shameful About Going to Therapy
You wouldn’t expect someone who had broken their arm or needed their appendix removed to suck it up or just deal with it, so why should the mental health obstacles that cause us harm be any different?