My daughter, Corynn, is convinced that she’s never leaving home. At seven, she made up her mind that Mom and Dad take such great care of her that she’ll just stay. But she knows I’ll have none of that. One of the hardest questions Corynn has ever asked me is, Dad, who do you love more,…
Choices are the substance of life. Whether spur of the moment or carefully considered, the choices we make today will be the means to where we arrive at tomorrow. Why? Because when we make a choice, we are actually choosing a destination. For example, every time I choose what to eat, in actuality at the…
Five minutes spent watching or reading the news will cause some serious question about the basis of humanity. Are we a “good” people or are we “bad”? It’s a lot easier to reconcile the Aurora Colorado theater shooting last month by coming to the conclusion that the shooter was/is a bad person. The word “bad”…
Years ago, Ana met Mr. Wonderful, a travelling salesman. They fell in love but he had to keep travelling with his job. To remind her of his constant love, he wrote her letters—one each day, in fact. The postman would deliver them to her door each morning and she would snatch the letter out of…
Q: “It seems like when my fiance’s emotions get high or he is upset, he often shuts down completely. He says “not tonight” when I say that we need to talk and work through an issue or argument we had. His lack of wanting to communicate just frustrates me even more, and we both go to…
