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We’re acquainted with the family of my daughter’s 3-year old friend, Lily; we’d probably be better friends but both her parents work, and I’m a stay-at-home dad. Mysteriously, the schedules of two-parent-working families and those of at-home-parent families rarely coincide.
So I was excited last week when Lily’s mom told me that she was going to […]

I always have a cup of coffee in my hand. If you look through my flickr account, you find coffee everywhere. If you look where I’ve walked or worked, you’ll find coffee stains. Caffeine in the morning. Decaf later in the day.
But why?
Why do I drink so much coffee? Why is it so pervasive?
My parents […]

Isn’t it interesting how we can think that Postpartum Depression is something that happens to other people even while we are surrounded by the signs of depression within ourselves?
I struggled with Postpartum Depression with three of my four births and I’m not yet out of the woods with my fourth. My fourth baby, Laurelyn, is […]

I moved to a new job in January. Because I work in a church, it meant that our family moved to a new church. Because the job isn’t far away, we didn’t have to move to a new house, nor did our daughter have to change schools. As a high school junior, that is a […]