This is the eleventh year in a row that I have posted this blog.
My throat gets tighter every year.

When I first wrote this, I had a 13 year-old, a 9 year-old, a 7 year-old, a 5 year-old, and...

I walked in on (one of my kids) dancing the other day — spinning, jumping, gyrating, and singing at the top of (his) lungs. It was so incredibly unbound, gleeful, genuine, and care-free.

I...

The following is a hypothetical. Nothing in the following post actually happened. Except for everything in the following post pretty much always happens. 

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My wife asks me what I want...

Here are a few things I love:

Peanut butter, baseball, The Avett Brothers… and several of my kids. 

There are some other things on the  list, but those are the first few that...

Last week, I was invited to Florida where I spoke on “The Power of a Paper Towel” with an incredible company based out of Panama City Beach. Not a bad place to have to go to work if I...

I think the hardest thing to do as a writer is starting. For example, it took me almost seven minutes to write that first sentence.

Wait…

Should that be an “I think” sentence?

Or...

Text originally written for Inspero.org.

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According to the Storybrooke Lodge website, the property is “a hidden treasure nestled in the rolling hills just outside of Franklin and Leipers...

I had the great honor of giving the commencement speech at my daughter’s graduation from high school recently. It was an “average at best” speech, and you’ll find out why if...

The best gifts are usually things we can actually use. Tangible or intangible, the best gifts help us to experience life in new and different ways.

The best gift I ever received was way back in...

On a recent research trip to Selma, Alabama, I found myself walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge trying to process all that has happened in that place. Most of what I know about its history,...