Category: Life

Break's End

The end of summer break is always a little weird. I have a shorter vacation than normal because of the nature of my job, but going back to work at ... Read more

Coming Back Around

This week, my wife pointed something out to me: our entire dinner was either something we grew or something we helped raise. Vegetables from our ga... Read more

Cloud Power

Summer brings some pop up storms at the end of the day when the humid air starts to cool. They often form over Lake Michigan to the west and slowly... Read more

Recent Happenings

We're in the throes of summer and there have been a number of events, ranging from new construction (because there is never enough stuff to build),... Read more

This Site is Under Construction

Last month, my family broke ground on a new house. Less than a year ago, we were just toying with the idea of building a house, and now we're actua... Read more

Quince House

I just finished packing up our first house, to be put on the market tomrorow morning after living here for eight years. As I moved from room to roo... Read more

Two

This little one turns two today. Read more

Four

Our second daughter turns four today. Read more

The Bennett Family Sing Along

A few times a week, we sing hymns with the kids before bed. I get the guitar out and we practice their favorites. The lyrics are Bible-based truth ... Read more

On Being a Parent of Four

We had our fourth child, a boy, on June 28th. Since then, life has sped up in some ways and slowed down in others. I'm fortunate to have the entire... Read more

Brute Force Bike Lock

Two years ago, we took our kids to the north shore of Michigan for a camping trip. Part of that included a day on Mackinac Islad with the girls and... Read more

10 Years

Today is my 10th anniversary. Read more

Spring Broke

Spring break finishes tonight, so this is the "what we did over spring break" post in case any of my old teachers are reading the blog these days. ... Read more

My Phone is a Phone. (Mostly.)

I have a love/hate relationship with phones. Several years ago, the "shitphone" post on Medium caught my attention and made me start thinking more ... Read more

Spring

We heard the first group long before we could see them. Almost as small as long-distance airliners, the Sandhill crane call is distinct, clear. The... Read more

Back to School

It's appropriate to write a back to school post nearly a month into the school year. I took Twitter off my phone back in July in an effort to put m... Read more

The Big Dig

Our septic system needed to be upgraded, so we took the hottest weekend of the year (so far) to do it. My wife's dad and brother spent the day with... Read more

Reflector

I wrote this as a post to a discussion forum for grad school. It seemed fitting to post on the blog as well. It’s a response to a children’s story ... Read more

Mugs

Every Friday, our local NPR station has a segment called Michiana Chronicles which features essays by area writers. I don’t catch it often, but I h... Read more

Adding a Bullet Journal to my Work

I took most of the summer off from writing, but now that school is getting back into swing, it’s time to start thinking out loud again. Back in May... Read more

The Remodel

Three years ago, my wife and I bought our first home. I can’t believe I haven’t written more on this before (which is partially true. I mention the... Read more

Teaching Thoughts

Some things I’m thinking through this week, written here so I can find them later. – Evan Weinberg has a good string of posts on his blog related t... Read more

Christmas 2015

I’m overwhelmed by the feeling of immense blessing and immense wretchedness each year. The birth of Christ – King of Heaven, seated at the right ha... Read more

Thoughts from Home

My wife had our second daughter last week. I’ve been fortunate to be able to stay home with them this week and help out with the newborn and our tw... Read more

Denotification

I went about four months this year without a smartphone. I used an unlocked flip phone that barely made calls and didn’t have reliable text predict... Read more

What’s Worth Your Time?

This year, my wife and I decided to make many of the gifts we gave for Christmas. Me, having a bunch of time off from working, and Lindsey, raising... Read more

Teacher

I’m really struggling. I lost my job in November and I’m in the midst of trying to balance what I do with who I am. I wrote in January about the co... Read more

New Adventures

I lost my job on Friday. It sucks, but life moves on. I’ve started applying for schools, but it isn’t really a good hiring time right now. So, in t... Read more

My Better Third Is One

This time last year, I was writing about increasing my household population by 50%. In the blink of an eye, a year has already gone by, and we went... Read more

Living the Connected Life

Everyone is connected. There are reports of so-called “disconnect anxiety” afflicting our society because our desire to know what’s happening all t... Read more

Straddling the Line

“Walk the line” could work, too, but I’m no Johnny Cash. I moved to TechSmith nearly a year ago from teaching. All I ever wanted to do since starti... Read more

What Are You Thankful For?

I’ll admit right at the beginning that this post is a shameless use of all facets of my network. This blog is one of those. So, if you’re someone w... Read more

And Then There Were Three

Today is the last day of our family of two. This weekend, my daughter will be born. My wife is 39 weeks pregnant today. We’ve been busily preparing... Read more

in absentia

I used to write a lot. It wrote about day-to-day. I wrote about wins and losses, living, learning, and people. I haven’t written that way in a long... Read more

Summer 2013 is HUGE

It’s that time of year again: summer. Conferences are picking up and I like seeing where everyone is headed. So, I give you, my summer travel/life ... Read more

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