The Quesadilla

It was a year ago today. A warm September day; sun beating down on me through the expansive windows of the Dallas-Fort Worth airport…

Personal Finance:

It’s Behavior, Not Math

You Are What You Think

I have a bad habit. A destructive frame of mind. Something that, if someday I’m blessed with a child, I swear I’ll overcome. Because you know kids, from our words, they pick up on far more than we could ever imagine. About our views of the world, those around us, and ourselves.

Knowledge is Power

I remember being in kindergarten, or maybe even pre-k when I first realized my mom was sick. The memories are spotty, at best. I have a couple vivid pictures in my mind of very specific moments in time, like of my grandpa standing by the stove cooking dinner while he was visiting to help out…

Parallels Among Dissimilarities

My day started with a fabulous conversation that has occupied my mind for hours.

Some background: I’ve had an unconventional journey with religion. Maybe unconventional isn’t even the right word, since my journey has been pretty nonexistent. My…

Purpose

I had something else planned to write for today. Actually, that’s happened a few times. The topic in my mind shoved aside by something new, a more pressing inspiration.

I got to teach today. I mean, I was teaching adults, which I do a lot these days, but I was modelling a lesson from…

It’s How You Finish

Tonight’s post will be short and sweet. I’m tired, sore, heading back to work tomorrow after 5 days off (3 from my accident + the weekend), and the ending to the Seahawks game today definitely took a toll on my wellbeing, namely my blood pressure — however, that just seems to be how my Hawks…

Fake Less, Be More

Over the past few years, I’ve put a lot of stock in the term, “fake it ‘til you make it.”