The sun has gone down and I am sitting around the campfire with a bunch of other parents, praying that the temperature does not get as low as we expect it to. I love camping out and I miss the backpacking I […]
Yesterday I talked about the awesome day that Zachary had and the turn around that seemed to have happened. Today I want to talk about my younger son, Connor. Where Zachary is not the aggressive, athletic type, Connor is. Connor came into […]
Last night I went to bed feeling an overwhelming amount of sorrow and depression. My oldest boy, Zachary, has been struggling with soccer. He hasn’t found his niche and his personality has often put him at odds with some of his team […]
Today we had the first of our official games. I coach the U-10 boys Thunder! For the South Iredell Soccer Association (SISA). My oldest son, Zachary, is on the team and I love getting to coach him. He is already showing improvement […]
Eleven years ago today I became the luckiest man in the world. The love of my life said, “I do,” before all of our friends and family and she has stuck with me for eleven years. We are not that mythical perfect […]
Today is the ten year anniversary of the death of my daughter. Evey year I know its coming, but it still hits me like a hammer blow to the stomach. I would be lying if I didn’t say that it has gotten […]
So my youngest son is the athlete of the family. He does soccer and karate and is hyper competitive in both. Yesterday he got his first taste of sparring…and I caught some of it on video. He’s barely six and smaller than […]
So this morning I get up and head downstairs. Coffee and raisin bran round out my wake up routine before I sit down to do some writing. I work at it for about 30 minutes then I start to feel pain shooting […]
Ten years ago my wife gave birth to my little girl. The labor had been long and uncomfortable for my wife and ended in a C-Section ultimately. I was in the operating room holding stroking my wife’s hair and speaking words of […]