Barf Simpson
I never really watched The Simpsons growing up. My parents didn’t allow it anyway, and since I had Captain Planet and Darkwing Duck, I didn’t feel like I was missing out. But there was a Krusty Klown Simpsons Ride at…
Category Life
From Tweaking to Seeking
My daughter gazed out the window of my wife’s car and, given her Holmes-esque powers of observation, deduced that something was “off” about the shirtless, disheveled gentleman on the street corner. Unintelligible screams, choreiform gyrations, and an apparent immunity to…
“Hey, I Bought Your Book!”
Writing a book results in some hilariously awkward social interactions. For example, a random person will say, “Hey, I bought your book a while ago!” At this point, I reach into my Grab Bag of Superficial Small Talk options, which…
Report Cards and Righteousness
Anyone who has hung out with Junior High and High School kids has probably had a conversation similar to the one below: Adult: How did your semester go? Kid: Great! I pretty much got all A’s on my report card!…
Flying Pancakes of Perseverance
The deck was stacked against the Flying Pancakes of Youth Recreational Soccer this morning. A hailstorm had ripped through the Treasure Valley the previous night, leaving several large tree branches on the field. The goats who usually roam the perimeter…
From Reggae to Glory
My Dad is generally a beacon of reasonableness and a rock of good sense. But during my early adolescence, he briefly went through a phase that made my Mom and I question his sanity. When I was growing up, we…
Father Abraham on Father’s Day!
The early 1990s was a glorious era for Sunday School. Fueled by Ritz crackers, Nilla Wafers, felt boards full of happy hippie-looking characters, and an ABSOLUTE FIRE song playlist that was impressively both Deep and Wide, we had it all!…
Fatherhood, Fairytales, and VeggieTales
When I was younger, I figured I would eventually get married and have kids. After all, I was Larry the Cucumber at Vacation Bible School, and all of those kids either wanted to be me or marry me someday! I…
Live Strong, Die Less-NEW ARTICLE!
This RECENT PUBLICATION has been making headlines, and the not-so-shocking conclusion was that people who perform both regular aerobic exercise AND resistance exercise seem to die less than people who just sit around. And this goes right along with many…
Running Free of Resentment
“It somehow happened quite suddenly then that I alternated between despising them and thinking them superior to myself.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground When I was running collegiately, we would sometimes compete against BYU. And the annoying thing was that…
