This week I took a few days off exercise, leaned into finishing some work projects, and still made time to read an audio book. 

(Link to your free audiobook below, BTW.)

Here’s the top 7–

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Sushi night with Emma + the draft of the new book made the Top 7 for last week…

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Fitness = Press “play” every day + 2 long runs

Great week working out at the house… and two good, long wee...

This week’s Top 7 includes another birthday celebration, some yard work, and LOTS of hours at the jump park (because, you know, kids will swim in the winter but won’t in the summer… just like they ref...

I remember going to first grade and knowing that, every single day, regardless of how hard I tried, I was going to get in trouble. It never failed…

👎 I’d find myself talking to my neighbor at just th...

This week's Top 7 features some reflections on summer sports, steak dinners, and a bonus reflection on what it means to "show up."

Here's the run down, one entry (at least) from each of the seven key...

The Bible tells us, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Often, when we think of something that is new, we think of a...

So we're officially into summer now, with the first week behind us-- the first week being the subject of this week's Top 7...

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Fitness = Detox time

So this week I decided to do something ...

If you’ve watched the movie The Wizard of Oz, you know that Dorothy travels down the Yellow Brick Road throughout the course of the film. Eventually, she finds herself in Oz- and meets the Wizard. 

W...

This week’s Top 7 includes a lesson timing, my take on Top Gun, and a visit to the fourth restaurant to occupy the same space within just a few years over in Avondale. 

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Fitness = running ...

We often live under the delusion that our life is just about us- and that it’s no one else’s business. However, our decisions affect others in the same way that we affect others when they are riding i...

This week two of the kids made the transition from one chapter to the next (gradation) and three of the kids joined us in Gatlinburg for a work + play trip… 

That— and more— made my Top 7, where each...

Don't judge the entire book by the page you're reading right now. Or even by the sentence.

Often, it takes time to reap the benefit-- or agony-- of current decisions. That is, it works both ways...