Learn how to have conversations that build trust, not division. My interview with Patti Pilkington Reed about her book, Face to Face, Smart Conversations with Yourself, Your Teenager, and Your Young Adult
Communicating With Your Teen Or Young Adult
Books, Grey Hair, and A Trip to the Tropics
My last few years of ups, downs, and dreams fulfilled.
Parents are Like the Little Engine That Could
By the time we become parents, life has provided us with moments of defeat and victory. Our Adolescent Story may have chapters of disappointment. Our Young Adult Story may be like a meandering river. Becoming a person of faith is undoubtedly the epiphany of Our Life Story. We hope and pray that this gut-wrenching, nail-biting …
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Being Impressionable
My prayer was for my family, all eight of us, and I prayed something like, “Lord, help us stay impressionable.”
Violation of the creation
We strive for perfection. To be unanchored. Free to do, think, say, and become whatever we desire. Where are the boundaries?
Who Let the Dogs Out?
This post was originally published August 2017. Anger is in style. For so long the urge to rigorously emote an often justifiable yet violent sense of injustice has been suppressed in human souls. We are seeing the eruption and the ash falling on all of us. What happened? Perhaps it was that the hurting never …
Overcoming Adversaries
The kids were naive. They didn’t understand how their joking could hurt my son.