Reflections on life, faith, work, adoptive parenting, and everything in between
It’s a dilemma as a parent. We want them to have friends; we all need them. But age and experience have taught us about the pitfalls associated with the wrong associations, so to speak, and there comes a time when we simply can’t control or be present for every interaction or connection they make at school or elsewhere.
If you want to get to know yourself better, have kids. Contrary to popular belief, they don’t enter the world naked. They arrive equipped with a figurative outward-facing mirror designed to reveal to you and your spouse both your best and your worst characteristics.
I would lose my taste and interest in cake if I made a meal of it every moment of every day. It’s the business of toiling six days that makes the seventh so sacred and desired.
Randy finished his life at 45.
Standing in my girlfriend's driveway one evening and saying goodnight, the question came up. “So, where do we go from here?" she asked.
“There never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them.”
As I drove the first few hours of the change, the sudden diversion in plans brought the question to mind: “What would I be doing if I didn’t have kids?”
Time in a Bottle 