Category Archives: Past
Surviving the Firsts
How My Dad Set An Example 27 Years Ago That Helped Me Get Through My First Christmas Without Him
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Making Sense of the Forest and the Trees
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Life, the way I believe it’s meant to be lived anyway, is a ground-floor adventure. We have to be down on the front lines if we’re to really experience all its splendor and tragedy. But that doesn’t mean we should spend all our time there. It doesn’t mean we should never retreat to strategize. If […]
The Power of Legacy and Why it Matters
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4 Things I Learned From Joe Biden’s “Note to Self”
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A few days ago CBS News published a story on Vice President Joe Biden. I’m not especially prone to an interest in politics, so I don’t know a whole lot about specifics of his accomplishments in office. From my non-political position, I consider Biden’s greatest contribution to be his empathetic nature. He exudes such a […]
Life’s Most Important Lesson
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The Time I Gave Up On Parenting and Why You Should Too
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Parenting is hard. Whether it’s one child, three children, or ten, parenting is hard damn work. For those of us in the throes of it, this is not a mind-blowing revelation. But it is one we should acknowledge more often. It’s also something we should be honest about. If we’re being honest, we admit that […]
Kids Say the Darnedest Things…And Then They Stop
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There’s a Last Time for Everything
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What Would (or Wouldn’t) You Tell Your 16-Year-Old Self?
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One of my favorite new websites is one called Upworthy. It’s a collection of topics, videos and ideas that their staff has curated from the internet. All of their content is somehow tied in to social issues that we are faced with. I don’t always agree with their stance, but the ideas usually do make […]