Yesterday we drove from Atlanta to Panama City Beach for our Wakefield family reunion, and thus far it’s been really nice. There’s something about traveling on the open road long distances that just relaxes me and reminds me of my childhood. I mentioned to my cousin’s wife, that she’ll have to get used to road…
Month: July 2014
Intentional Parenting, leveraging teachable moments
Author Wayne Muller wrote, “I’m so busy.” We say this to one another with no small degree of pride, as if our exhaustion were a trophy, our ability to withstand stress a mark of real character. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves, and we imagine to others. To be unavailable…
Re-Imagining Education…#becauseamerica
Sometimes I wonder about the type of education my kids one day will receive as they matriculate into “formal” schooling over the next few years. I found myself doing so again this lazy, post July 4th as I sat out on my back patio watching my daughters create their own game in the yard, with…
everyday fatherhood 