Master of the Oblivious
Yesterday Merriem and I accompanied Jacob, our oldest, to his company Christmas party. That’s right: we’re old enough to have a child with his own workplace party. After it was over with, we shopped for...
Author: Danny
The Cross in the Midst of Chaos
This afternoon our entire nation is focused on the horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The latest numbers report 26 people dead, many of them children, and many of those likely kindergarteners. Every time another headline...
Flashback Friday: Template It
This one’s for the pencil-pushing, numbers-crunching, spreadsheet-making organizational nerds out there. Merry Christmas. If you’re a leader who tends to run regularly recurring events, you need an event template. Weekly events are one thing: you...
Thursday Three For All
Three things that have grabbed my attention like a spider monkey grabs a toupee off a bald guy’s head, in 3…2… Fluffo Gave Middle Tennesseans Good Night’s Sleep For 80 Years. In the “purely personal” category,...
Capturing the Magic
No doubt about it, this little girl loves her daddy and our special time together. And by “loves” I mean “I think my ear drum ruptured.”
Forever Home.
The bystanders at Raleigh-Durham Airport never knew what hit them. Late Monday afternoon a few dozen people descended on Terminal 2. They brought banners and balloons and cookies and a camera crew. They gathered at...
The High Cost of Free
Last Thursday night was designated family night at the Casa de la Franks, a night where we temporarily gave up the individual staring at iPads, iPods, iPhones and iPreciouses for the collective staring at the...
Flashback Friday: O Holy Night: The Mystery Revealed
This remains one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs. You owe it to yourself to click through to the links below and give ‘er a listen… For the last eight or nine Christmases, the butchered...
Thursday Three For All
It’s easy-peasy day around the blog, where I put up cool links and you click ’em. Hey, I’m just here to serve. The One Minute Change That Will Transform Your Company. Or your church. It’s about...
Get To vs. Guilted To
One of our volunteer plumb lines is that you should serve because you get to, not because you’re guilted to. There’s a world of difference between those two words. Guilted to people sign up to serve in the nursery even...
