It's Tuesday evening as I sit at my laptop writing about the cat that almost wasn't. The cat is the 3rd cat that my wife and I have had over the past 13 years. His name is Napoleon. We got him a couple houses ago, around 2004 or 2005 from the animal shelter. He was...
Framily is a made up word that was used by Sprint in their cell phone ads. It's Friends and Family. Or maybe Friends that are as close as Family. I like that better. Do you have a best friend? Do you have a best parent? How about a best sibling, cousin, or...
Believe it or not, there are very few things in life that should surprise us. Over 90% of our lives are predictable. You wake every day, eat 2 or 3 meals a day and go back to sleep. Most of the other stuff that fills in those hours are routine too. My wife and I go to...
Earlier this summer, I mentioned that a review of Fort Wayne coffee shops was in order. Time to share my biased and unprofessional opinion. I was introduced to coffee shops in 2000 when I met my wife. Up until then, I would drink the usual swill that came out of a...
We live in a world filled with noise. Sometimes it's the chatter of co-workers, sometimes the tv, sometimes music. Rarely do we listen to silence. When my wife and I sleep, we even have some white noise, a small fan blowing and creating a sound. A couple weeks ago I...
31 years ago, my oldest daughter Rachael was born. About a dozen days ago she and her husband welcomed their 2nd child into this world. While my first 31 years were very different from Rachael's, her two kids first 31 years are going to be filled with even more...
Not much to say today, really. But I will just the same. The news media will be all over this topic today and for those of us who were over 30 on September 11, 2001, we can reflect on how our lives and society has changed during the past 13 years. But what really...
My friend Jon Swanson writes. He writes a lot. Books, articles, blog posts, sermons, and much more that I don't even know about. 300 words a day is his blog that I subscribe to and is part of my morning routine when I wake up, it's waiting for my in my email....
Sometimes we get caught up in the stuff we have to do. Sometimes we get caught up in the things we need to do. Sometimes we get caught up in the stuff we want to do. Sometimes we are simply caught up in things and stuff that in 5 years won't matter. Sometimes we are...