A friend of mine shared a link to a blog written by a single mom of 3 teens. Identities are anonymous to protect the relationships involved, but the authenticity is loud even in the absence of names and places. I was moved. I appreciate the struggle of trying to parent in the face of challenging circumstances and [...]
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
For the past few weeks, I’ve been feeling an extra dose of discouragement. There’s nothing dramatic going down, no crisis or cause for alarm. It was just a convergence of real life happening all around me—people I love with broken hearts, minds, bodies, relationships and lives. It started to pile up and, in my gloom, [...]
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
My friend, Kevin Hendricks, recently published his first book. Addition by Adoption: Kids, Causes & 140 Characters. hits the Amazon shelves TODAY! It's a collection of tweets (you heard me right … a book authored in Twitter) featuring: funny and bizarre things his kids do the causes they support the story of his son's adoption. [...]
Thursday, May 6, 2010
I just heard from the LA rock star who made my Indiana family look like rock stars. DALEY HAKE is coming to Grand Rapids, MI! He’ll be there the first week of June (give or take a few days) and I’ve got inside scoop that’s he’s going to be in a shooting mood. You want [...]
Thursday, March 11, 2010
“Knowing how people grow, does not mean we know how to grow them.” – Management of the Absurd If you’re having a hard time getting people to buy into change, it probably has more to do with bad relational navigation than it does the change itself. If we focus on the WHO more than the [...]
Monday, March 1, 2010
Last week, I spent a full day with 12 leaders from TX, IL, PA, IA, LA, SC, NY, GA, MO and VA. We devoted an entire day to the topic of why transformation efforts fail—it all boils down to people. And, as you know, people are a strange bunch. So, it’s tricky. We wrestled with [...]
Friday, February 19, 2010
The purpose of this post is not to advocate crowdsourcing. If you’re not already hip to that game, read this little book to catch up. This purpose of this post is stretch the concept outside the software, business, ministry and smart-mob genres. How many of you crowdsource your family or marriage time? Two years ago, [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
I found some old family night photos from last year. They made me smile. We still do family nights, we just haven’t been as intentional about our themes or photos. I’m motivated to ramp those up again. Last night we had Gpops & Gbunny over for a Wii party, but I don’t have the pictures [...]
Friday, January 15, 2010
I was invited to speak to a group of young authors this summer about my experience writing a book. It was intimidating. Look at these kids! They’re the over-achieving, well-behaved, honor society, valedictorian-bound, talented group of scholars. For the record…that’s NOT the kind of kid I was in school. You see, I had [...]
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
This is Tom Backhus, owner of 4 Eagle Ranch. He used to coach college football. Even coached at Notre Dame for a year (offensive line coach). The dude (pun intended) has really created something special. We made a trek to Colorado last year (for SPRING BREAK of all things) and spent the evening at his [...]
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