Contributing kids
"In an agrarian society, kids realize their worth because parents really need them. Today with day-care, etc., they never realize how worthwhile they are."--John D.…
Failure, the coach
High performers tend to hate failure. Some of them hate it so much, they will deliberately not engage if they feel there is a decent…
Do you know them?
We teach our kids (rightly) not to talk (too much) to strangers. My children are working to learn their community--trying to remember names and faces.…
Translation
Long words save time because they carry the meaning of longer sentences, even paragraphs, of information. Can you translate yourself? Can you break it down…
You hangry?
It took Diedra and me longer than we care to admit to notice that we were getting in petty arguments right before dinner. Eat some…
Names gene?
"I'm not a names person." "For the life of me, I can't remember people's names." I've heard that there's a neurological reason we find it…
On friendship
C.S. Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, and J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were friends.…
You come too
The Pasture By Robert Frost I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water…
Concerns and responsibilities
My pastor, mentor, and friend, Pastor Mark Biehl, regularly and gently reminds us that our areas of concern will always exceed our areas of responsibility.…
Refresh them
What is it about flying that makes the beverage service so refreshing? When we lived in Dallas we were regularly picking up guests from the…