Like many Americans, I was enthralled in the Judge Kavanaugh Senate Hearing on Sept. 27, 2018. (As I write this, we don’t know if/when the vote is coming forward.) While you have access to plenty of commentary about the hearing itself, I look at this from a perspective of a parent of two daughters and two sons, all around the ages of when the alleged incidents took place. To all four of our children, I consistently have preached this message: Your integrity and character are

So Number 2 has started her 4th tour with The Young Americans that will be traveling through the Midwest with several stops in our home state and because of that, a couple home stays as well. Kori and I had been looking forward to having her home and meeting some of her friends she has been touring with. As I have spoke of before, her lack of communication with her parents while on tour is par for the course and this tour is no exception. In fact one of her tour mates sham

Talk about ZagZig, my media exposure lately has me weaving among the news headlines of Serena Williams and accusations of sexism on the tennis court, CNN’s recent documentary on Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and her fight for gender equality, and the television series Mad Men, now on Netflix, about an advertising agency in the 1960’s. The bounce from Mad Men’s prolific portrayal of sexism in the 1960’s to the documentary about a real advocate and news about a rea

So this last weekend found me far from home at my brother-in-law’s house in Minnesota. He had picked up Number 3 from college for the long weekend and the family all headed to the Minnesota State Fair. It has become a new yearly tradition that all the kids have enjoyed over the years. Typically my schedule doesn’t allow for it as I have my own yearly tradition that takes me to Illinois during that Saturday. Friday I drive from Nebraska to Illinois. Then on Sunday, I drive