When we retire, I hope we realize we’ve been doing so wonderful things all along.
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What if death wasn’t certain?
The heaviest truth of human life is that death is certain. But the alternative, if death were uncertain, might be even heavier.
I’ve fallen in love, again and again.
Every new season brings a fresh chance to fall in love again. Over the years, my marriage has taught me that love deepens and renews itself, unveiling its beauty time and again.
The Steady Years: Strengthening Marriage in Comfortable Times
How do we strengthen our marriage, when our week-to-week is steady and consistent?
2023: The Year of ‘Not Helpless’
2023 taught me a powerful lesson: facing fears and owning up to my choices proves that, really, we're never helpless.
When we linger, we are showing love in the most honest of ways.
We survived by learning to make adjustments.
To be held is to be loved.
At work, we shouldn’t depend on our companies to find purpose and meaning for us. We have the capability to find it for ourselves.
For sure, every person is capable of terrible things. But we, as men, don’t have to believe the delusion that we were born with a monster inside us. We have to stop believing that. We can build our identity as men around the parts of us that are most good.
I had a profound realization on a morning walk, on a perfect fall day.
Being part of a collective story is a very special type of human experience that brings a deep, grounded, and peace-giving joy.
There are men that are trying to reimagine what it means to be a man. As in, how to be a different and hopefully better kind of man.
And we are doing this without role models to draw from. We are breaking ground, and it is remarkable.
Women pay a tax on their talent. It’s not fair.
Talking about decision criteria has completely transformed how Robyn and I make decisions in our marriage and for our family, I suspect that it could have similarly transformative effects in our civic lives.