To Our Graduating Son: You’ve Made This Much, Much Harder Than it Needed to Be…

Dear Oldest Son…You graduate tomorrow! It is so hard for me to wrap my head around this. You were our “little guy” for a long time, then our “big guy” for awhile, and all of the sudden you are a man. It happened that fast. Probably happened faster for us than you. So graduation will

The New “Happiest Place on Earth”…

Short and wonderful experience: Our youngest daughter and I were driving home from her play practice. She is a “rosebud” in the school play, Alice in Wonderland, so the practices are grueling. As we neared our house, the local radio station was announcing their most recent contest to give away a week-long vacation to Disneyland. The

“Lose Ten Pounds With No Effort At All!” (and other silly ideas…)

I was on Pinterest a few days ago and something caught my eye (go ahead, follow me, at your own risk). Someone had pinned a website that claimed you could lose a bunch of body fat without doing anything. You didn’t have to change anything. You didn’t have to alter your eating or exercise patterns.