Category: Parenting
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The Power of Flowers
We bought this orange poppy a few years ago from the markdown rack at the Lowe’s garden center. It’s a complete outlier in the flowerbed and my personal favorite because its intense orange jumps out like an orange safety cone in the middle of comparably tame daisies out of control mint. This particular flower is…
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Embracing Digital Minimalism to Make the Most of Social Media
Back in the mid 2000s, my grad school thesis advisor sent me to a conference in Boston on the emerging field of social networks. Back then, Facebook had just started with college students and various social media platforms promised to connect the world by bringing everyone a few degrees of separation from world leaders and…
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2020 Lessons Learned: From Mowing the Lawn to Celebrity Driven Christianity
Like everyone else, this year challenged me. But, like all things in life, challenging times provide clarity. Inklings become concrete when life goes astray. Fortunately, my family and I survived and stayed healthy, but I saw so many friends and family suffer job loss, illness, and isolation. Looking back on this year, these lessons stuck…
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