The new normal
Well, it’s a new school year, just like last year except completely different. The past two years, I’ve had one daughter in middle school, one daughter in elementary, and one wife in nursing school....
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I have a confession to make. I’ve started another blog. Well, sorta. I’ve actually started a tumblr, which I don’t consider a “blog”, per se. But I guess technically it is. Anyway, you get the idea....
View ArticleA time to mend
My mom is dying. In the last nine months she’s spent maybe a week total at home. The rest of the time has been spent moving from the hospital to a rehab center to a managed care facility and back to...
View ArticleIn defense of Spotify
Taylor Swift recently made a lot of headlines for pulling all her music from Spotify, arguing that the streaming service was hurting album sales and essentially driving her into bankruptcy, killing...
View ArticleFalling in
I don’t know how I feel about the word “introvert”. Introverted, extroverted, Type-A, melancholy, choleric, INTJ, ESTJ, ESPN, whatever. All ways we try to figure out how to measure each other, define...
View ArticleIt is finished
When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. — John 19:30 I have a tendency to whine. A lot. Maybe not as much now as in the past,...
View ArticleThe party’s over
For the past couple of years I’ve struggled with what to do with this site. Do I keep it up, keep chugging away at it, keep using it as, what, my public journal? My Bible study? My witty yet...
View ArticleBreathing underwater
Is this my life? Am I breathing underwater? — Metric, “Breathing Underwater” I texted Christy the other day. “Parenting is exhausting.” Because it is. I used to think it was only during the school...
View ArticleComing forth
I’ve learned a word since the new school year started: forthcoming. Like in a school’s “homecoming” but for a new school, when there’s no alumni to come home. It’s Megan’s first year in high school,...
View ArticleThe dangers of being a fan
On Saturday morning I walked into the weekly men’s breakfast at my church wearing a t-shirt repping my daughter’s high school, whose mascot is the Eagles. I didn’t think anything about it honestly,...
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