A BIT ASKEW

I took a poll last night, and it turns out that raining down hellfire, even when it is few and far between, does give spectators cause...

There are people in my life who like to delegate. They tell someone to tell someone something. As the secondhand recipient, I started...

My son has a mentor in his life in the form of his chiropractor. I have found that chiropractic is a very personal type of therapy. A...

I have noticed there are two kinds of friends. There are the I would die for you friends and the we are not in an actual relationship;...

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to watch the 1937 film "Shall We Dance." Our protagonist, Petrov, sets his sights on Linda Keene....

I received news this morning that filled me with anxiety. Coincidentally, my children are hosting a film day / play day with their...

I have been pondering a question floating in the ether of social media: If I could speak three words to my 18-year-old self, what would...

Today, my boys performed a puppet show in a school for the first time. It was a little more stressful and required a lot more...

Family is a tricky business. Holidays, weddings, graduations, reunions, they are all the carnivals of life. They are the joy-filled,...

Although feeling lost and overwhelmed is normal and natural in my vocation as spouse and parent, I find that I rebel against it at every...

I have found that the Act of Contrition is about as easy to gloss over as the Our Father. In the Act of Contrition we have, "I firmly...

I have noticed that cowards and bullies are basically the same people. There is a kernel of unhappiness in their life that fuels unkind...

I have found that having active kids sometimes means cracks in the plaster and holes in the drywall. There are those who take the time...

My boys had an assignment: spend three hours with someone, the other person's choice of activities, nothing immoral or illegal, just no...

In my years of tripping over toys and miscellaneous debris, I have learned to look at the floor as I go through my bedtime routine. As...

I have noticed that in life there are sprinters and there are marathon runners. For one the goal is speed. The first one there gets the...

I have noticed that I have attended many funerals of people I have not known well. I have gone to support other family members and...

I find that there are two kinds of family: the one a person is born into and the one a person adopts along the way. When I was young, I...

In the time of Jesus, sitting shiva was a custom in which the people would come together to grieve. They came together to heal and to...

The Tefft kids waging Lego war on Christmas morning. During the first week of January, my son Billy said, "New year, new me." This has...