For all parents life can be a balancing act. We have to balance work, family activities, finances, and the needs and wants of our children, while trying to maintain sanity in out own lives. Sometimes the scales can tip in one direction or another that can throw off the balance, and the hard part is … [Read More...]
My name isn’t Atlas-Lessons about Dad
February 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I can still remember the day our youngest child was born. If you haven’t yet read my about page, then what you don’t know is that is was an opportunity I didn’t have when our oldest two sons were born. To hold them as they first entered the world and began their journey, one that … [Read More...]
Another Day of Life and the Gift of Change
January 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
So as you may, or may not know from reading here at Another Day of Life, things have been, well rough in my world. I have been really struggling to try and keep my head on right. It’s always easy to play the “blame game” when things aren’t how we want them in out lives, … [Read More...]
What’s My Purpose
January 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I lost someone that I needed needed at a point in my life when I just wasn’t ready. I was only 20 when my mother passed away after a long struggle with a vicious disease that took her from us one piece at a time. At my middle years I realize many of my friends … [Read More...]
I think I get it now
January 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Do you remember the TV show Reba? One of the the common gags centered around her ex husband Brock’s midlife crisis. I never really understood midlife crises, I never really understood how they work reason why anybody had them. Finally as I approach the big 40 I think I finally get it. No I’m not … [Read More...]
The Hardest Critic, Part II of II
June 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
if you read part I, you read about my struggles with the need to do things both perfectly, and the counter fight with my need to do them and keep up a commitment. Today is more about how that can become a horrible critism in your mind, and how to deal with it, and how to sometimes live up … [Read More...]
The Hardest Critic, Part I of II
June 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Here’s the thing with this blog. I have always had a love/hate relationship with it. It was back in the old days a great way for me to start to make sense of the life I was living, and the huge amount of changes that were going on, but also a huge way for me … [Read More...]
It’s the Journey….
June 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This is fun, challenging and daunting all at the same time. I really haven’t been much of a blogger over the last few years, and to be 100% honest we will have to see how this goes. The hardest thing for me about blogging is finding enough time to do it. It’s not even the … [Read More...]
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