Category: Books
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How Best to Raise a Human
Raising kids is hard work. For all the smiles, laughs, and happy times, there are quite a few tantrums, tears, and confrontations. As a parent, I want my kids to succeed and be happy and healthy independent adults someday. It is often hard to picture the happy and independent adult scenario when a little one…
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Working with Family Distractions and Getting Things Done with Pomodoros
If you spend time working from home on tasks that require absolute concentration and attention to detail and have kids, you know these two aspects of your life can be incompatible. In other words, sometimes your deep work is not compatible with your dad work. As the father of four young children, I have had…
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Can You Have Too Much Mercy? Reading Pope Francis’s The Name of God is Mercy
The Name of God is Mercy by Pope Francis and Andrea Tornielli I recall stopping to think, coffee cup mid-air, when I first heard these words from Pope Francis: I would think that a few very rigid people would do well to slip a little, so that they could remember that they are sinners and…
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