My wife Kristin reminded me last night that we have our wedding anniversary coming up next week! Let me be real with you – it would have snuck up on me anyway. However, with everything happening with working remotely, the kids being home, and the pressure to practice healthy social distancing, it honestly slipped my […]
I’m currently writing this while sitting at a coffee shop on a rainy afternoon, and there is a table of three very chatty, obnoxious, silly, giggly 12-year-old girls directly hovering over cinnamon rolls and muffins directly in my line of sight.
What, exactly, were you expecting when you got married? Did you expect marriage and your spouse to make you happy?
It was my 12th birthday, and I was (in my mind) an aspiring guitar-playing rock star. All I lacked was the right equipment. You see, all of the ultra-talented hair bands of the time had huge stacks of black-boxed amplifier speakers that blasted their gnarly guitar solos.
Your bride gives you the news: This Friday night I’m going out with the girls, so you’re on kid duty. Good luck!
One of the most frustrating things I experience on a fishing trip is when something malfunctions with my fishing reel, and the line becomes a horrible mess of tangles and knots. Some folks refer to this as a “bird’s nest,” because the thin fishing line gets bunched up in what seems like a giant mound […]
There is a right way and a wrong way to tie a fishing lure to your fishing line. I learned the hard way why it’s important to be sure and tie a strong knot. Every. Single. Time. One fishing trip, I decided to use my favorite spinning lure at the creek, and so I quickly […]
As I watched my two elementary-age daughters fishing in our neighborhood pond yesterday, I was reminded how my dad had passed on his love of fishing to me at an early age, just as his father had passed it on to him. Important skills are handed down from generation to generation: how to carry a […]
