Shelter-in-place. I never thought we’d read those words in our lifetime. Or at least, not in the context of a pandemic. Maybe after an earthquake. As of now, it really isn’t that bad. We can still go outside to exercise,…
There are multiple facets to every story, so I don’t normally overreact to things in the news. Smart kids with clocks (bombs), or sexual harassment at schools by students or employees – while I am disturbed by the general ideas…
I think we’ve already established that I’m a pretty teary guy. The littlest things will set me off. At the end of last school year, I made a bid on a fundraising photo collage from my son’s 3rd grade classroom. …
Little T had a birthday last week. He had pizza and ice cream cake the evening of his birthday. A few hours before that, he had a ramen “snack”. A few weeks before that he had a party at school. …
A few posts back, I referenced The National Outdoor Leadership School and something called the Time Control Plan. According to Bruce Martin’s Outdoor Leadership: Theory and Practice, “A competent leader develops a time control plan that matches the goals and…
I hatched a plan over thirty years ago. The plan was to learn how to be the best dad ever. My eldest siblings started to have children when I was quite young, so I started changing diapers as a newly…
