Stop and Watch the Sun Rise
Not long ago I was out west for a conference. You need to know that I haven’t spent that much time “out west.” There was that one time in Texas, and another time in California,...
Category: Purely Personal
Dads Who Run
As I type, I’m sitting in my living room looking out on the back porch and the landscape of Snowmageddon 2015. The Raleigh Durham area is caught in the icy grip of .000004 inches of...
Flashback Friday: Twenty Years
Today marks 22 years of marriage to my girl. That’s a long time, y’all. I don’t know what I thought life would look like back on that cold January day in 1993, but I couldn’t ask for...
Flashback Friday: Moses, ‘Mandments, & Toenail Polish
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! If you tuned in last week, you know that Advent has come to...
Flashback Friday: A Tree Grows in Durham
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Meticulous research has shown me that there are two kinds of people...
Sundays with Oprah
I have a story that I need to share with you, and no one else. (Let’s keep it right here, shall we?) I’m a Starbucks Gold Card member. That means that I spend way too...
Flashback Friday: Putting a Dent in Advent
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! I’ll start this post with a couple of confessions: Confession #1: I...
Deck The Alls
Last weekend our family participated in a time-honored annual tradition that unites us with our kinsman around the globe. The annual tradition that heralds the holiday season. The annual tradition that puts gleams in eyes,...
In Solemn Stillness Lay
A couple of weeks ago Merriem and I were sitting in the living room, each on a laptop. She was reading me something off of Facebook, and I was eyeball deep in a spreadsheet I...
