I’m Ready Now / But It’s After Midnight This was fun, but now I’m very sleepy! I’ve been working to stick to a healthy eating plan, and factored in the holiday “slide.” I knew I needed to get back to training to make up for the snacking between Thanksgiving and the New Year. I was half, well, actually not very motivated at all. Our 16-year-old asked about working out together. She’s the typical hardworking, over-achieving, taking on too much responsibility at school, and now

12 Days of 31: The Fly and Corpse I didn’t have the most stellar undergrad experience while attending The University of Southern Mississippi, but maybe the one thing I retained from a rarely attended class was a quote from an African studies textbook. “Without supervision, a fly follows the corpse into the ground.” Anonymous African Proverb Was it the most profound thing I’ve ever heard? No, but I think it anchored to my spirit in an effort to tell me something. Oddly enough,

I’ll Pass The family wanted to go to some activity that for me wasn’t even close to what I wanted to do. In their excitement, all of the kids tried to encourage me, beg me, and trick me into agreeing to take them. It would’ve been so easy to say, “I’ll pass.” But, where does that leave me as the spiritual leader and head of my household? If we only did what interested me, these kids would never get the chance to explore who they are and who they will become. “Fathers, do not