For the past nine days, I have volunteered countless hours at the College World Series as a way to fundraise for Number 4 and his dance team. As a parent this is a wonderful opportunity to support my child, and I work all the shifts I can get; however I do get a little cranky after 10-plus hour shifts and my knees don’t like the concrete for that long either During one of our much-needed breaks, I sat in the stands munching on dinner and watching the on-field activities. I

I love the airport. Okay, maybe not all aspects of it; after all, I am writing this on the tail end of a weather-related, delayed travel day. There are, however, some joyful nuggets I enjoy that make some of the challenging airport times well worth it. At my hometown airport, friends, family and loved ones can wait just outside of the security area to meet passengers. On the way to my car, I look forward to walking through that area to catch a glimpse of a toddler running tow

As a perpetual planner, I should have looked ahead to see the potential looming challenge that I would face. At age 16, however, when Mike and I met, I did not bother to do the research which would have clearly pointed out that my husband’s birthday and Father’s Day are back-to-back, occasionally falling on the same day. Today, it stresses me out! MIKE: Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. I am super chill. I just like relaxing family time. She is all worried about buying gifts and making thin

Confession…I have not always given my full attention when my wife, a well-read news and research junkie, gets excited about some information she has discovered and asks me to take a look. It’s not that I don’t care; it’s just that she gets a lot more excited about it than I do. This, week, however, I have to say her info sharing caught my eye and made me think. A Harvard study came out that the U.K. publication Garzia Daily called “The Daughter Effect: Fathers of Girls ‘More

As if parenting wasn’t challenging enough, the system design is flawed; at least by manufacturing standards where quality replication is the goal. One could even argue that parenting defies the Uniformity of Nature principle which states that identical antecedent states or causes are uniformly followed by identical effects; in other words given similar inputs, the past will hold for the present and future as well. If we follow these efficiency principles and scientific theori