How to beat the strain, stress, pressure, push…? Push on, through the stain and struggle, muddle to, The beat of your heart, gotta start somewhere, somehow, Consider, talk, listen, and then, Beat it.

Sure it’s complicated, many perspectives and responsibilities, but at the end of the day, Thousands upon thousands of people fleeing their countries to Western Europe over the Mediterranean, or on foot over thousands of miles through Central America trying to reach The United States. They’re mostly migrants fleeing poverty and violence, The problems are many, …

Continue reading How Can This Be Right?

Don’t get anxious, don’t get startled, don’t get overwhelmed, instead, Know this is normal, Take five deep breaths, Make a list, Take five more deep breaths and, GET AFTER IT.

I’ve written about him before, maybe every year on this day since 2012, when our son, Levi, came into the world. My guy Levi. He’s had plenty of bumps these last 10 years, but he’s weathered them all, health issues of various kinds, to come out stronger as he reaches the decade mark. Humor and …

Continue reading Celebrating My Guy

Every year we go through it, twice, Fall back, Spring forward, Daylight Savings Time ends, Daylight Savings Time begins, The official practice dictates the clocks get changed at 2am on Sunday; I like to make the switch midday the Saturday prior, to ease into the schedule change, Quirky dude that I am, fiddling with the …

Continue reading A Magic Hour

Balancing kids, priorities, tasks, duties as assigned, The constant tension of parenting, Multiple kids mean multiple moods mean multiple opportunities for detailing from the path, from the plan, Constant battle for dad anyway…just me? Might be. But though it’s on the other then off, many zigs and zags and snags along the way, The main …

Continue reading Dad Release Valve:: Balancing Kids

Good week, busy week, glad it’s Friday, yo Kids back, list back, getting colder and a little older, Creaky knee, still filled with glee at where it all stands, or lies flat on the ground, the bed, so I said, Good Night.

Scribble scribble scribble in the pre-dawn dark, common themes to start the day, the daily muse I stir and share, How to find progress, and hope, what is the way? Oft’ thinking of mistakes and miss-steps, remorse for time spent in vain, sometimes some pain, Then reset to good and into the melee, something to …

Continue reading Speed Post:: Another Little Muse

Early morning, knees, back, brain, creaky, slow to go, ease on, Light streaming in slow but sure, will major change happen today, or no? Thinking about home, projects, kids, work, work orders, change orders, creaky, Creaky slow, but forward anyway… Creaky GO, GOOD.