…impactful healthy family behaviors. –Email from my kids’ private school. If I’m paying tuition, shouldn’t I expect the school to know that “impactful” isn’t a word?

2012 resolutions

My philosophy about resolutions is to make a lot of them while also not beating myself up if I don’t achieve all (or even most) of them. I know I won’t do all of these things, but, since I’m a baseball fan, I kind of like that the best hitters fail...

Just about every Iowan is posting this on his/her Facebook, Twitter, whatever. This is the clean version. The not-so-clean version is also easy to find. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Not-so-welcome center

OK, making one more use of the photo I posted a couple days ago re: the Illinois Welcome Center. This is our our church’s eNews… My family made its annual trek to my home state of Iowa between Christmas and New Year’s last week. After a nice visit...

Welcome to Illinois!

Whenever I return home from visiting family in Iowa, I always feel compelled to write about the experience. It’s now been 20 years since I moved to Chicagoland so you’d think I’d be over it, but I suppose there’s something about one’s...