Embrace the Chaos

My 4 year old daughter has a life threatening egg and nut allergy.  We discovered it when she was about 10 months old when we gave her a piece of egg to eat.  She broke out in a horrible rash, vomited, turned blue and passed out. I didn’t know if she was alive in the [...]

I flew out to San Antonio, Texas recently for a speaking engagement.  As I boarded my flight from Newark Airport, I was in a lot of pain.  I hadn’t slept well a few nights during the week and my herniated disc was acting up big time.  After a good night’s sleep on my cervical pillow [...]

Dinner time for some may be full of peace and quiet but not in my house.  With two young girls, ages 6 and 3, it is full of the sound of little feet running while their mom is in chase trying to put food in their mouth with Sponge Bob blaring in the background.  Total [...]

As a kid I always had to work on the Fourth of July at my parent’s Dairy Queen because a lot of our employees happen to call out ‘sick’ and it was usually very busy. So I never got to see the Fourth fireworks back then. Nowadays, given that I no longer help out at [...]

No matter how many problems we faced growing up, our Dads just knew exactly what to say.  They knew exactly what to do.  And they were always right.  They’d say, “we were going to be just fine.”  And it made us feel better. Our Dads worked hard, put us through school, played with us and [...]