by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Aug 6, 2026
A man sat across from me and listed everything he was owed. A wife who appreciated him. Parents who showed up when he was ten. A boss with eyes. A body that didn’t ache getting out of bed. One run of luck that finally broke his way instead of over his head. He...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Dec 22, 2019
In college I took an astronomy class, and for fifteen weeks I had to track the exact time of sunrise and sunset every single day. This was before you could pull it up on a phone in two seconds. I literally stood outside all semester, pen and paper in hand, writing...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 29, 2019
Sometimes you have to quit things. Just do not quit on you. I am not saying a man should never quit anything. I am saying he should never quit trying. There is a world of difference between the two, and confusing them has kept a lot of good men stuck in places that...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 27, 2019
The best times of your entire life have involved the women in it. Honor them. Your mom and her Thanksgiving cooking. Your wife’s laughter from the next room. Your daughter and her silly stories that go nowhere and mean everything. Your niece, your aunt, the...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 8, 2019
A few people have asked about the black necklace I wear. It is a reminder of a poem I first heard more than twenty four years ago, recited from memory by Danny Hamilton, the president of the mission I served for two years in Perth, Australia. I memorized it myself...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Oct 25, 2019
I am saying goodbye to my office this weekend. Excited, but a little reflective as I pack it up and move into a newly renovated suite just down the hall. I have been in this office exactly three years. At my weekly average, that is somewhere around seven thousand...
