As a result of last week’s blog on things men should know, I received a variety of comments ranging anywhere from, “Thank you!” to “I didn’t know any of that!” or “I already know everything about women.”
I’m not an expert, but I’ve had years of being around thousands of women, so I thought I’d share some of the feedback with you. Below are a few comments from male readers: Continue reading…
Being intentional is something we could all use a little more of. That’s why I really enjoyed my friend Sheri’s book, My Intentional Life, by Sheri Bertolini.
Can you separate living intentionally from the space you live in? That’s the question Sheri asks, and it’s a good one. We all may know what “eating intentionally,” working out or planning our finances intentionally looks like, but what about “connecting your heart to your life and home,” as Sheri puts it in the book’s tagline. Continue reading…
In honor of Valentine’s Day later this week, I thought I’d share something that came up in a mixed conversation earlier this month — a few things men really should know, but can’t quite seem to figure out about women.
I’m limiting this list to six very basic things, starting with: Continue reading…
In honor of the presidential Inauguration this past week and Daniel Day Lewis’s recent Oscar-worthy performance in Lincoln, today’s post is dedicated to our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.
Second in glory perhaps only to first president George Washington, most Americans think of Lincoln as a noble caricature of a man, tall with a stovepipe hat, raised in a Kentucky log cabin. As the author of the Gettysburg address (hastily penned while on horseback), Lincoln was known for his simple eloquence. In fact, many common American sayings can be traced back to Lincoln: Continue reading…
In case you missed it, this is a fabulous Jan 18. article by C.J. Stephens on the Lance Armstrong scandal, “The Cost of Creating a False Narrative.”
Not to be missed.
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/current/nation/cost-creating-false-narrative
Manti Te’o, I’m looking at you.
Did you know that somewhere in the world of commercial Christianity run amuck there is a Joel O’Steen board game?
Yes indeed. And if you haven’t been playing it, you aren’t living your best life now, my friend.
How and when a Live Your Best Life Now board game came into my possession I don’t remember, but being in the game closet, it found itself among potential choices for game night this past weekend. Continue reading…
I don’t usually repost things, but with the recent media sensation surrounding Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron’s girlfriend during the BCS National Championship game (she was featured on television simply sitting in the stands and gained 100,000 new Twitter followers instantly), I think the comments of the week go not to Brent Musburger, but psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow in a recent column. Continue reading…
With the start of Season 3, it would be remiss not to have at least one post dedicated to one of my favorite TV shows, Downton Abbey.
For those of you who haven’t succumbed to Downton-mania, get with the tea and biscuits already. In upstairs-downstairs style, the show follows the Crawley family, led by Lord and Lady Grantham of England and their three daughters, through the 1910s and 1920s. Continue reading…
I’ve always secretly hated New Year’s resolutions. Why? Because asking an overachiever to come up with a New Year’s resolution list is sort of like asking NASA scientists to build a go-cart. Continue reading…
“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more…He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them, for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happens on this globe for good at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset…
It was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive posessed the knowledge. May that truly be said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol