DADDY, WHY ARE YOU WORKING?
My two-year-old asked me why I was working, and before I could answer, she accidentally showed me the question I should have been asking myself.
Living Deliberately
Living Deliberately
YOUR PLAN MAKES SENSE. BUT HAVE YOU SEEN IT FROM THE OUTSIDE?
Every plan has a blind spot. You just cannot see it from where you are standing.
Living Deliberately
MESSI OR RONALDO. YOU HAVE ALREADY DECIDED.
You did not choose your side. Your side chose you.
Living Deliberately
THE POLITICIANS ARE MAKING THEIR CAMPAIGNS. WHAT ARE YOURS?
Election season makes five years feel real in a way that ordinary planning never quite manages.
Faith and the Big Questions
THE THINGS THEY REMEMBERED
The things people say at burials are never what you expect them to say.
Living Deliberately
THE BEST THINGS IN MY LIFE WERE NOT IN THE PLAN
Most of what I am most grateful for, I did not want at the time. Not philosophically. Specifically. The bridge
Living Deliberately
MOST OF YOUR LIFE IS ALREADY FORGOTTEN
Most of what happens to us disappears. Not dramatically. Not in the way you forget where you put your keys.
The Journals
THE LAMP ON THE TABLE
Most of us have something. A lesson that cost something to learn. An experience that changed how we see things.
Career and Trade-offs
THE DECORATED CELL
The queue Mukuba Mall. Kitwe. A Friday afternoon in 2019. I was in a queue at Atlas Mara Bank, waiting
People
THE HONEYMOON ENDS. THE MARRIAGE BEGINS. SIX YEARS OF FIGURING OUT THE DIFFERENCE.
The last time I sat down to write about marriage was on our second anniversary. That was four years and