When God has other plans: A new foster care story
There is an old Yiddish adage that says "Man plans and God laughs." I'm not sure that's true, but if it is, then I bet when God needs a good laugh he looks at my plans. My whole life has been full of detoured plans and crushed timelines. I won't bore you with a lifetime of excessive details of how things didn't go as I anticipated. It's the same old song and dance and [...]
This is who you should marry
I’m writing this blog from an elliptical at the gym. But this post isn’t about my writing or workout discipline. That’s not the impressive part. I’m writing this post at the gym ten hours after my twins were born. That’s the impressive part. Again, my workout discipline in not [...]
The one thing we gave each of our children when they were born
It's traditional for parents to give their children a gift for their birthday. Usually this starts at the first birthday but I wanted to give each of my children something when they were born. Something they could take with them their entire life. I wanted something I could give [...]
12 day ab challenge
This is not a fitness blog. My readers know that in my posts I usually tell a story and try to draw a moral or lesson from it about how to be mentally strong or gain wisdom. Occasionally I'll sprinkle in a post or two (or ten) about adoption [...]
3 things I learned from pain
Pain is a great teacher. Constant pain is an aggressive teacher. Last year I shared a little about my experience with chronic pain and it really connected with people. It was one of my most popular posts ever. In it I talked about how my constant pain was probably [...]
3 lessons in fatherhood from THIS IS US
I love that the show This Is Us is making fatherhood a positive thing again. For a long time we have lived with the idea being presented on television that the father is the joke of the family. Think about it. From Homer Simpson to Al Bundy. From the [...]
7 Reasons to write a book
Writing is by nature a solitary sport. Writing a manuscript requires hours and hours and hours of sitting down and putting one word after another after another. And then hoping 80,000 of them all make sense in the order you placed them. It can take years of hard work [...]