Accepting Critique – Five Suggestions

My stomach is a bit twisted up at this moment. It could be the coffee, or it could be the feedback I just received about something on which I worked very hard. I suspect it’s the latter. This feedback came by way of a very kind and very sound email, and I agree...

On the Other Side of Fear

It is really the strangest sensation to feel wind on my the back of my scalp. To put on a hat and feel like the fabric is floating above my head. To have small children put the pads of their fingers to my head and say, “It feels like Daddy.” To wash my...

Missing a Post Is Sometimes So Worth It

For the first time in over a year, I missed posting yesterday. I was at Relay for Life and had been awake for over 25 hours at that point . . . to be honest, I just had other priorities. Like looking at the photo album a man brought to show pictures of his wife who...