Encourage Their Dreams

Encourage Their Dreams

by | Sep 2, 2026 | Family, Inspiration, Parenting

So. You are a parent of a five-foot five-inch, sixteen-year-old son. A son whose dream is to be a professional basketball player. Who lives and breathes the game of basketball. He eats his breakfast with his ball tucked under one arm. And sleeps with it nestled on the...
Bent Soccer Rules

Bent Soccer Rules

by | Aug 12, 2026 | Cautionary Tale, Family, Relationships

Pappa and his two small great grandsons were having fun playing in the park on a gorgeous afternoon. Kicking around a soccer ball, they soon decided to start a game. Well, a loosely-termed version of the game of soccer. The kind of game that has very few boundaries or...
Sinking Ship Marriages

Sinking Ship Marriages

by | May 20, 2026 | Family, Marriage, Relationships

If you are in one, it’s a scary thing. With a lot of anger, defeatism, anxiety, and damaged pride as shipmates. But, maybe you still feel that you would rather patch the holes that are rapidly taking on water, rather than just bailing out.  Maybe you feel the kids...
Ignore It and It’ll Go Away

Ignore It and It’ll Go Away

by | Apr 29, 2026 | Family, Parenting, Personal Growth

If we are talking about your teeth, yep, that’s true. Just totally ignore them, and you have a pretty quick way to rid yourself of a tiresome repetitive responsibility. “She don’t care about us, and always wishin’ that we weren’t so needy all the time? Oh, yeah, we’re...
Don’t Just Blindly Raise Your Kids

Don’t Just Blindly Raise Your Kids

by | Apr 22, 2026 | Family, Parenting, Wisdom

We humans have personality traits, that is readily apparent. And because we all have our own individual and highly weird traits, each of us also have singularly different desires. Desires for things in our life that are driven by our God-given quirks. The athlete,...