Things my kids do

Just a quick list of things my kids have done in the past couple weeks that made my laugh, cry, scream, shake my head, or just more generally question everything I thought I knew about humanity.

1. Cam (recently turned 3) used to call me bree-dic-ri-ous. Now I’m apparently…

Pink Bubblegum Cigars

The year was 1977. I was twenty-seven years old, working as a welder in a factory in Birmingham, Alabama. The company…

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Lessons from the Garden

The garden was a symbol of all that was right in the world.

Time Uninterrupted

It has been five weeks since my daughter was born.

I started that morning with an email to work telling them that my wife asked me to stay home. We were not expecting (but were hoping) her to be born that day. Thirty minutes later we were riding the shoulder on the…

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Want workplace policies, laws, and values that support your family? Me too. Let’s do something about it.

American mamas and papas: we have a problem.

The US ranks last in nearly every measure of family-friendly policy in the world…