Busy parents
January is Read Aloud Month for us. Actually, every month is read aloud month--but January is the month we participate in the Read Aloud Challenge--each…
Vital signs
Pulse, Respiratory Rate, Temperature, Blood Pressure. These have to be "within normal limits" (WNL) or life is threatened. Institutions have vial signs too. For the…
Be specific
"Thanks very much: it is so interesting to hear exactly what people do like and don't like, which is just what grown-up readers never really…
Interruptions
There are fun interruptions. Like when my wife or my children stop by the office to say hello. There are messy interruptions. Like when someone…
Courage
I've heard it said that courage and cowardice are hard to predict. That some, assumed to be brave, don't hold up. And others, assumed to…
Assurance
“There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known…
“Not how I was raised”
"That's not how I was raised," he said. I was having lunch with a college student almost twenty years my junior. We were discussing some…
Bob Ross
I have a Bob Ross bobblehead on my bookcase in my office. If you push the button, he says some of his famous lines: "You…
Licensed friends
Friendships level up when we give each other permission to call each other out. I once heard this called "Giving your buddy a hunting license."…
Stages of fishing
When you're a little kid, fishing isn't fun unless you catch a fish. As you grow, at some point, something changes, and fishing is fun…