I have to ask, how are we assessing our kids? A proper assessment assures us we’re on the right track as we aim our children toward their destinies. When my sons were growing up, most schools administered broad assessment tests...

The U.S. stock market is experiencing remarkable highs, increasing individuals’ 401Ks 50, 60 and even 70%. Living here in the Seattle area where Bill Gates and Paul Allen began their little startup called Microsoft, I often hear folks wistfully reflect,...

When someone next to you is shining brightly, it reveals what needs to change in you. Recently I’ve had a fresh glimpse of the good things in my man…this man I’ve lived with for nearly four decades. His quiet, unabashed...

Lying in bed tonight, I reached over to touch my Gregory. I felt his warm skin at my fingertips. That same firm, broad muscled shoulder, same manly smell I’ve known for 37 years, and I wanted just to lay there,...

In midlife, sometimes anxiety like a vice grip, comes to crush you. Overwhelm like an ocean swell, looms large... reminding you of all that’s undone, imperfect, incomplete, in disarray, off track. The ‘whys?’ pile up, the pat answers aren’t working,...

Today my son texted to say he would be at my door soon. I assumed he must need something as he leaves tomorrow on an important business trip, and I’m always at the ready with a stocked fridge, natural remedies,...

There is a season when we control most everything in our children’s lives. That’s the easy season. It’s when Jesus takes the wheel when they’re about 17 we begin to lose our hair and drink more wine. It seems my…

You could call me intuitive. It’s the way I’m wired. I sometimes get a sense about things before they happen. And sometimes I wish I didn’t know. A few weeks before our recent move from California to Washington State, I...

So funny how the tables turn when we reach mid life. I always thought my job was encouraging, prodding, pushing, and exhorting my five sons, but now, they’re my heroes. They have challenged me, strengthened me, comforted me, quelled my…

I’m kind of like a Jack Russell Terrier. Perpetual motion. Fitbit freak. Perfectionist. Until I broke my ankle in two places seven days before the moving truck arrived. In a minute, I was banished to the Isle of Immobility at...