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Donut Wholes | Truth, Love, and Consequences
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Blog Rules of Engagement. Nov 27, 2014. First published in “Duck Ponderings” on Sunday, November 06, 2005. Daddy, why do you call Gran your Mom? These questions used to make me uncomfortable, though I knew they would always come, even before I had children. Well, Kristofer, I call her Mom and Papa ‘Dad’ because they treat me like their son. Gran and Papa are my wife’s parents, Adele and Bob. But what about your mom? Well, a long time ago she told me she didn’t want to be my Mom anymore. How do you know?
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It is time | Truth, Love, and Consequences
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Blog Rules of Engagement. May 8, 2015. Rafiki, in the last minute of The Lion King, says to Simba, It is time. It was time for Simba to step up, embrace his position of leadership within the pride, and lead a broken society to a more promising tomorrow. The last seconds of the movie show that that tomorrow is being realized, in the presentation of Simba’s son to the world. We all know the bad things Simba did and that happened to him that brought him to this place. And I know what got me here. In His inf...
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Sacrifice or saving? | Truth, Love, and Consequences
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Blog Rules of Engagement. Dec 25, 2014. I have given up email and facebook for Lent. Email is harder. Facebook will be difficult because I help some clients on facebook, but I’ve managed a happy medium on that. No facebook for fun just profit! And I have become a barbarian. A cretin. A shadow of myself. I rely upon email to do my dirty work. I throw out zingers I would never say face-to-face. I have become holier-than-thou behind my keyboard, and I do not like it. That’s not me. This is not new. I’ve...
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The age of narcissism | Truth, Love, and Consequences
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Blog Rules of Engagement. The age of narcissism. Dec 1, 2014. Social Media and Narcissism. Let’s get this out on the table right now. Our nation becomes by whom we are led. We have a President and an overwhelming majority of our Congress that are, in a nutshell, narcissists. A definition by writer Benjamin Wiker at National Catholic Register fits and avoids me having to reproduce the entire article:. The article is a good read. This perversion of The Customer is always right maxim causes problems for the...
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Bread Lines | Truth, Love, and Consequences
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Blog Rules of Engagement. Jan 1, 2015. On Tuesday, December 06, 2005. We’re sitting at the dinner table, enjoying some of Mama’s fine spaghetti (no sauce for the Heir Apparent, but complete noodles instead of cut up this time with butter). A question comes to my mind that has bothered me since I was Kristofer’s age. It was inspired by the six slices of white bread that had been buttered and garlic powdered to add to our ambiance in lieu of a fresh loaf. How could I have been so naïve? Mama mumbled someth...
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Shalom, Sam Sharp | Truth, Love, and Consequences
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Blog Rules of Engagement. Shalom, Sam Sharp. Jun 25, 2015. On January 27, 2012. Sam Sharp died on Wednesday. He was 80 years old. This came as a shock to me this morning when I heard it on the news. I still don’t know quite what to say. I do know that The Eagle and WTAW have not done my friend and mentor any justice in their reporting. Sam was more than what they could ever understand. Sam was a human being in the purest sense: Created in the image of God. I met Sam as I was working as the founding Vice-...
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Kristofer Cowles | Truth, Love, and Consequences
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Blog Rules of Engagement. Today is Constitution Day. Sep 17, 2015. On September 17, 1787 a small band of men, 39 in total, set in motion an idea that was formulated and placed on parchment, eventually circulated among the several colonies for ratification that would become the law of the land and the beacon of hope for the entire. Shalom, Sam Sharp. Jun 25, 2015. May 28, 2015. Goodbye Mr. Hooper, hello kid Ritalin. May 18, 2015. I am in the midst of proofreading my book, How To Dad, so maybe I’m a bit se...
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And the band played on | Truth, Love, and Consequences
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Blog Rules of Engagement. And the band played on. Jan 29, 2015. On Sunday, December 4, 2005. We were on our way to the Donut Shop. I hadn’t expected much conversation since Kristofer had his latest Happy Meal toy with him that he’d specifically asked to bring with us today. I figured today would just be a quick visit. That doesn’t mean things can’t happen. When we get to Shipley’s, my Power Ranger motorcycle is going to ZOOM! And jump and speed across the table and fly over all the donuts and donut holes!
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My empty Seet | Truth, Love, and Consequences
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Blog Rules of Engagement. Mar 26, 2015. On March 3, 2013. As a Catholic, the last few weeks have been a roller coaster of emotion. As a convert, this is only my second Pope. I was confused by my emotional response when His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI announced his abdication of the chair of Peter. A quick click to the story and the actual words of his resignation on the Vatican’s web site, and I was able to focus on the man and his reason for abdicating. I can credit Benedictus XVI for leading me to the f...
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Dad | Truth, Love, and Consequences
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Blog Rules of Engagement. Goodbye Mr. Hooper, hello kid Ritalin. May 18, 2015. I am in the midst of proofreading my book, How To Dad, so maybe I’m a bit sensitive to this. But since Sesame Street was such a part of my childhood, it matters to me. And I think it does point to a cultural misstep that my own father participated in and I think many,. What do I mean by no Man Husband Dad in my life? May 10, 2015. May 8, 2015. Why doesn't God shout? Dec 8, 2014. Why doesn’t God Shout? Dec 4, 2014. I responded,...
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