Love What Was Shown to Me

Love What Was Shown to Me

If I know how to love anything or anyone at all, I learned it from watching two specific people do it for their entire lives. They’ve been doing it since 1964, which means they’ve been at this longer than most people have been alive. She was 17. They...
Carrying My Grandmother

Carrying My Grandmother

I had the sad but honorable experience of serving as a pallbearer for my grandmother. She died on New Year’s Day after ninety-four years of pure love and pure service and sacrifice. Carrying her was one of the most solemn and meaningful things I have ever done....
The Man Who Leads

The Man Who Leads

A man operating in his fullness is not just out here surviving and providing. He evolves into something more. He becomes a teacher and a guide. His attention naturally gravitates toward the men and younger men around him, toward their professional struggles, their...
Build a Reading Family

Build a Reading Family

A few spare minutes with the people I love and somebody pulls out a book. That is the kind of environment I have built and been raised in, and I would not trade it for anything. It changes the quality of every conversation in the room. What a Reading Family Actually...
Fix It With Your Sons

Fix It With Your Sons

There is more than one reason I drive a 2009 Chevy Silverado with plenty of miles on it. One reason is that I am not about to spend $700 a month just to drive to stop signs on the way to work. The other reason is better: I have six sons, and when that truck breaks, we...