• Managing Overwhelmed

    Ana and I are overwhelmed most day, every day actually, with three toddlers in the foster system, two dogs, two businesses, and a marriage.  The brochure said there would be balance, the brochure lied.  So here we are in way over our heads and wondering how the heck we...
  • Anne Austring Went Home Today

    She and I didn’t always see eye to eye. Things get messy when small-town Baptist girls divorce their husbands and take up with someone new. The new guy is an intruder, an interloper, he doesn’t belong so it’s only natural that he would bear the brunt of all the...
  • Down To Nothing Is Where You’ll Find Everything

    There is a point some of us will reach, if we live long enough. It’s a dismal place devoid of anything good that no one ever dreams of reaching. It’s a crossroad and to get there you have to hurt, and when you think you can’t hurt any longer,...
  • Finding Balance Again, Slowly

    I remember when I used to train so I would look my best on stage. The life of a competitor is very selfish (not in a bad way, it needs to be). My needs were my priority. Then God tapped me on the shoulder with a calling, “ Be...
  • She Will Never Be Able To Handle School

    For those that don’t know Crystal, she is our foster son’s biological mom. When we met she had just gotten out of jail. She was raised in a life of gangs, drugs, violence and crime. We have been on a very unusual journey for the past two years. It...
  • My Ex-Wife And I Talk About The Good Ole Days?

    Elaine Goodlad and I brought our 20 year marriage to an end many years ago but we did it in a strange way.  We didn’t fight over anything, we didn’t hate each other, and we didn’t pay any lawyers even a single red penny.   We were friends when...
  • A Man That Walks The Walk

    Over the past 20 plus years as a professional photographer, I’ve had the creative pleasure of photographing hundreds, maybe thousands of beautiful women. Not many guys though, not many at all. Most of the men I’ve worked with were professional fighters, some were professional bodybuilders, and a very, very...
  • Doing The Impossible

    She was on the street hustling drugs when she was fourteen, and pregnant with her first child. Her dad wasn’t anywhere to be found. Her mom was in and out of prison, everybody was in her world, or dead. She was born into the gang. As she explains it...
  • Big Boy Dreams

    I was just like him growing up. I loved motorcycles. I remember the first time I actually rode one all by myself. I was twelve I think, I can’t say for sure, but the feeling has never left me. My mom had dropped me off for the summer with...
  • Managing Life Instead Of It Managing You

    Episode 49 Difficult times can either break you or make you stronger but it’s how you react to the circumstances and not the circumstances themselves that determine your happiness, success and peace.  Mike Tyson once said that every fighter has a plan until he gets punched in the face....
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