Creative people of all kinds – from writers to inventors, gardeners to entrepreneurs – are often asked a funny sort of question: How do you get all your ideas? “They […]
Get Children Outside (Of Themselves)
Kids today are offered many invitations to be shallow. Everywhere they are bombarded with proclamations that reality is self-defined, appetites are sacred, and that self-control is self-defacement. If you examine […]
Prayer of a Fumbling Disciplinarian
Father of perfect discipline, Give me a heart that loves mercy more than being right, that loves grace more than law and compassion more than control. Help me not […]
Wedding Planners
We’ve been wedding planning, my daughter and I. The flowers were the perfect shades of pink, the dessert carefully chosen (not too sweet, but with a hint of almond), the […]
On Shame: A Letter to My Children (Part 2)
Shame seems to settle differently in different personalities. There are tender folks who agonize over the slightest fumble. Others seem able to walk away from an acute mistake feeling very […]
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