Last weekend, after a lengthy soccer tournament my three children competed in, my family and I decided to join another family at a local restaurant for some food and fun. After eating, we decided to hang out in an area where the adults could continue chatting and the kids could play. Between the parents and…
I was recently struck by the serious decline of face-to-face communication when I was socializing with some parents at a college football tailgate. One mom shared news about her college-aged son and his girlfriend’s break up. The mother was disgusted with the girlfriend, not because the two broke up, but because of how the girlfriend…
On a Tuesday at 7 a.m. my daughter brought me some oddly patterned paper and a book and said, “I can’t get this right, can you help me?” I, of course, immediately remembered when I was a kid (and expert paper airplane maker) and responded, “Sure”, grabbed my coffee and sat down with pure confidence.…