Victory

Today is my half birthday. So. What. Jinx. I know you thought it. Be honest. But yea, so what? A half birthday is essentially meaningless. I used to joke that you should get a half-hearted party on that day. I was cracking dad jokes at 16. No, I wasn’t a…

How do you feel about yourself? Are you proud of you? Are you ashamed of you? Or maybe you’re kind of indifferent about you? Me? Well I’ve gone through somewhat of a transformation recently in how I think of myself. Change will do that to you. See, I’ve had varying…

When I was preparing to get married I got all sorts of advice. Marriage counseling provided a ton of tidbits and wisdom nuggets, of course. I got a whole lot of solid principles to work with regarding how to make a marriage work. Friends and others who were married all…

Parenting is an inherently ridiculous endeavor. If we really think about it, parenting makes very little sense in our modern era. See way back in Way Back Whenland, parenting was simple. Your job was to teach little Martha and Martin the basics. Mend some socks. Butcher the old sick pig…

I’ve never been a person with great focus. I don’t mean this as an insult to myself. No, this isn’t going to be a self-deprecating post in which I talk about how much I suck but vow to do better. Not today, Satan! No, I say that because it’s just…

We are not whole. We are the products of brokenness. Division. Subtraction. Basically all the math you hate. We are the products of divorce. I’m not referring to the kinds Hollywood so often shows us. The kind where divorce is a cure to the disease of a bad relationship. Nah…

I’m at a weird stage in life. I am somehow at the point where I feel much younger than people I know my age yet somehow much older than people around me that are only a few years younger. It’s an odd place to be at times. Being a teacher…