Archive for the 'Marriage' Category

Overcoming Resistance

There’s lots of excuses we come up with as men. If we can’t be the best, we at least have the best excuse. If you hit the ground and take a six-inch divot before you hit the golf ball – with your driver – and pop the ball up to have it land on the [...]

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Time Capsule

Yesterday, I had to say goodbye to a relationship I have enjoyed for over a quarter of my life. Enjoyed may not be the word to describe every moment of the past twelve years, but that’s how relationships are. You have your good days and your bad days. There are days that relationships are costly [...]

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Buffet Living

There are two types of buffets in this world. One makes you work hard just to eat. The other allows you to become the laziest glutton on planet earth. I prefer the second. As I’m writing this post, I’m at Larry’s Pizza in Bryant. And what I become when I walk in the door isn’t [...]

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Competing With My Kid

Competition is good. It pushes us to get faster, grow stronger, learn more, perform better and be our best. Competition drives us past the limits of, not what we know, but what we accept. That’s the positive side of competition. But there is an ugly side of competition. You’ve seen it in others. It’s a [...]

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The Marriage Song

Sometimes strange things run through my mind at very odd times. For instance, I was driving down the road the other day and I saw a minivan. Strapped to the top was what might have been luggage. But wasn’t a suitcase. And it wasn’t one of those hard luggage cases. It was a very large [...]

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