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  • Hype man

    Please, please watch this video. I can’t describe how happy it made me. Frankly, it made me cry tears of joy. This little dude… he CAN’T WAIT for his buddy to get it right. And when his buddy DOES, his “hype” is… O U T S T A N D I N G. Initially, his…

  • Still influencing

    A while back my daughter Chloe and I were (again) discussing a strategy my wife Shelly had developed years ago to help her to STOP worrying so much as she parented our kids. It’s a strategy we (me and all my kids – including Chloe) use A LOT. Why did my wife originally develop it…

  • Daily buckets

    “Give us this day our daily buckets.” Why is this pseudo-scripture SO incredibly powerful? Because of it’s deeper meaning. Not many people know this but when my wife passed away in October of 2021, I almost passed away, too. Because of my kids… and FOR my kids… and for Shelly, I fought like crazy to…

  • E.M.E.? What’s that?

    What MEANING are you choosing to give events in your life? There’s an ancient story about a rich family who was asked by God to leave their home and all their riches because the area they were living in was going to be destroyed. After leaving the city and traveling by foot for a few…

  • Caught

    I got caught. And it was… kinda beautiful. Grief is interesting. It’s been almost 4 years since my beloved wife of 30 years and the mother of my 6 kids Shelly, passed away. I feel like I’ve experienced all 6 stages of grief… plus more. A LOT more. And I’ve even gotten to a place…

  • Be kind… of an a-hole

    Then it happened. To my surprise, his car zoomed by me and in a fit of rage he screamed an obscenity and shot me the bird. As I watched him zoom away, I noticed a bumper-sticker that read something profound… and I was… C O N F U S E D !! Why? Because typically,…

  • Nobody knows

    Shelly didn’t know. I didn’t know. Nobody knew. What if YOU knew it was YOUR last day? Yesterday, I found myself thinking A LOT about legacy. The wonderful legacy that Shelly left. The way she impacted others. The way she impacted me and the kids. The way she beautified the world on such a wonderful…

  • Teary-eyed awakening

    This morning I woke up teary-eyed. I’d dreamed about Shelly again and when I woke up the grief of her absence was a bit more than I could handle. Broken hearts can sometimes be so overwhelmingly painful. So… I considered, as I wiped away my tears… should I just call in sick for the day?…

  • D.W.D.?

    I almost got stopped for a D.W.D. And it could have cost me A LOT to get out of “PURPOSE PRISON.” As I dropped Ricky off this morning and was driving home something didn’t feel right. You know, because typically every morning, I jump out of bed ready to conquer, fired up for the day,…

  • I’d be ticked

    “How do you do it? What’s happened to you isn’t fair. I’d be ticked-off.” Recently I came across an old friend I hadn’t seen since Shelly’s passing as I shopped at Wal-Mart. As I saw him (and he saw me) he looked at me and quickly headed straight towards me. “How you doing?” “I’m doing…