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20 Albums In 20 Weeks: Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins (with Special Guest Blogger: Neil McLamb)

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My march through 20 albums in 20 weeks continues with an album from my college days. It would be crazy, however, for me to write a review on this album when I know an authority on all things Smashing Pumpkins. So, I’ve invited the expert himself, Neil McLamb to weigh in on Siamese Dream by […]

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Are Good Activities Damaging Your Family?

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Great families don’t just happen. They require thought and effort. The same is true of any grouping of people. You can have great athletes and not have a great team. Companies can hire the best and the brightest and still go bankrupt. Families can be composed of great fathers, mothers, and children and still not […]

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20 Albums In 20 Weeks: Leaving Eden by Carolina Chocolate Drops

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American folk music and bluegrass has stormed back into popularity in the past few years and no band has played with more skill or force than the Carolina Chocolate Drops. What They Think Leaving Edenreceived four stars from both Rolling Stone1 and The Guardian2. The album is generally praised for its musical skill as well […]

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How Much Is Enough: Why We Burn Out

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I ran long-distance races for my track team in high school. I wasn’t very good, but evidently neither were a lot of people in my conference. So, I could be counted on to finish third or fourth at most meets and get a few points for our team. I remember clearly the nightmare of each […]

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How To Fight Poverty In 2015

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Many of us have heard about CEO of Gravity Payments Dan Price, implementing a plan to raise all of this employee’s salaries to $70,000 over the next three years. Price is personally bearing the weight of the pay hikes by dropping his salary from $1 million to the minimum $70,000. 1 The hope is that the […]

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The Best You Possible (And How To Get There)

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“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four sharpening the ax.”                                                                                 -Abraham Lincoln I love this quote by Abraham Lincoln. The man was a walking tweetable moment. I’ve chewed on this quote in the past, pondering how to best prepare myself for whatever challenges or opportunities that […]

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3 Ways To Have Healthy Debates (Without Being A Politician)

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Depending on when you are reading this post, either the Republican primary debate is about to happen or has just happened. It’s been all over the news, possibly because there’s not a ton of other news, or maybe because there are 72 candidates. For all of their hype, political debates rarely deliver what they promise. […]

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3 Times That Saying Yes Will Damage Your Family

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We live in a world of yes. We have more options and more freedom than at any time in the history of the world. Thanks to the ease and relatively low cost of travel as well as the all encompassing reach of the internet, we can have experiences that would have seemed impossible for our […]

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20 Albums In 20 Weeks: Kintsugi by Death Cab For Cutie

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I’m a little behind, but my latest week-long obsession was Kintsugi by Death Cab for Cutie. The title of the album comes from the Japanese art of restoring broken pottery. It is thought that the damage that something has gone through is an important part of its history and not something to be hidden or […]