I have some serious story-catching-up to do here, but for now I want to get what’s in my head this morning out into the universe… Last weekend was the Walla Walla Little League District 5 All Stars tournament. Anson played 10U All Stars last year, and they lost both their games in heartbreaking fashion. This

When you plan your day, you’re making a promise to yourself… whether you realize it or not. You’re making a promise to yourself to get what’s most important, done. To show up for yourself, and for others. To go to sleep feeling accomplished, and proud. Sometimes, the unexpected happens, and you have to adjust your

When somebody asks me how I’m doing, I make it a point to respond with ‘I’m fantastic.’ Not ‘pretty good’ or ‘alright’ or ‘okay,’ FANTASTIC. The dictionary definition of this delightful word is extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers Let’s Intensify our conversations, shall we? A ‘good’ or a ‘alright’ or ‘okay’ is

Summer break is officially upon us. Ten weeks of unlimited possibility, limited structure, and potential chaos. I woke up this morning in a panic: how am I going to make this summer the best summer ever? I’ll be honest, I dread the lack of structure in the days. The unpredictability of my work schedule thanks

I am writing this on the Notes app on my laptop from the backseat of our Yukon at 11:05 pm The Yukon, aka the Walter Family Mobile Ambulance. Today, Archer broke her arm. While there was no gory broken skin or anything, it was displaced and required surgery. Just like that, my plans for the

I have been thinking a lot about my own self-identity these days. Not what other people perceive me as, because how can I possibly know. But how I perceive myself, and the limitations that can put on me. I am not good with money.I don’t finish things.I am too competitive. …and on and on. These

I get in a really foul mood when Anson’s baseball team loses. I remember I used to do this when the Seahawks or the Ducks would lose, back when I cared about professional / semi-professional sports. But not to this extent. I’m so cranky. Irritable. My fuse becomes quite short. Over something I can’t change

How do you want to feel today? It’s a question I ask myself almost every morning. As evidenced by other content here, if you’ve been paying attention. I believe there’s a recipe for the life of my dreams, and that it’s revealed by the feelings I want to feel more often. I used to play

For whatever reason, this morning the first word that popped into my head when I asked myself this question was ‘playful.’ You know, we take life awfully seriously. Before life got this serious, I was a lot of fun, I think. I know that I HAD a lot of fun. And I think it was

Another, perhaps less fun, hack for snapping out of funks is shrinking the problem in front of you. As in, putting in perspective the thing that has you all worked up, either in the context of shit you’ve handled in the past or things that are going on in the world around you. This is