One thing My daughter and I have always enjoyed doing is wrestling.  Well, it really isn’t as much wrestling as it is tickling, crawling, laughing, and cuddling – but she calls it wrestling.  It’s always been one of our special times..
Topics: Parenting

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Lately we haven’t been able to get out much.  We are saving every penny for the approaching storm – in a very real fight to keep our home.  So today, when I was going to Home Depot, I asked Darling Daughter if she wanted to go with me...
Topics: dad, daughter, expectations, family, father, friends, Growing Up, healing, health, innocence, Kids, life, listening, Parenting, people, resilience, Thoughts, understanding

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My college roommate and I were in our room one warm Spring day listening to the scanner and shooting the breeze.  Neither of us really had our head in the whole education game.  As volunteer firefighters and EMTs in College Place, Washington,...
Topics: EMS Stories, firefighting, friends, Fun, Leadership, life, memories, Oregon, priorities, Serendipity, stories

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’cause I gotta peaceful easy feelingand I know you won’t let me down’cause I’m already standing on thegroundWhat could be better than an afternoon nap on a warm Fall day? The sunlight streaming through the window, followed by a...
Topics: authentic, family, Growing Up, innocence, melancholy, memories, Oregon, Portland, serenity, Thoughts

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(continued from yesterday’s Part 1) Summary:I’ve been a little off my game lately. Well, OK, I’ve been a lot off my game.  That’s OK though.  I needed to retreat and pull back a little.  I’ve been hiding out in my cave....
Topics: authentic, balance, cave, Choices, church, communication, dad, daughter, expectations, failure, family, father, health, intimacy, Kids, Leadership, life, listening, love, morality, Parenting, people, priorities, real, reality, refuge, relationships, serenity, son, spirituality, stress, Thoughts, understanding, unemployed

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