Choosing Hope in Devastation: Jason & Kim Kotecki
It is rare for me to have tears streaming down my face as I read a blog, but that happened to me last week. One of the most wonderful couples and families I have ever known shared the story of a rare “wind event” tearing through their backyard, ripping out hundreds of trees in […]
Tesla Promise with Jeff Civillico
Disclaimer: I Do Not own a Tesla, although I would love to someday, and especially after this Promise worthy story was posted and shared on Instagram by my dear friend, beloved Host, Emcee, Speaker, and Award-Winning Las Vegas Entertainer Jeff Civillico. This whole post today is a screen shot, as it comes to us from […]
Pioneer Trek Pa
For the past 4 days my wife and I have been wandering the mountains of Utah in 1847 pioneer clothing re-enacting the legendary Mormon Pioneer crossing of 175 years past. Pushing and pulling a wooden handcart filled with our belongings, up a trail too rocky to push anything, through a river, and more dust than […]
Middle Ages
This past week my article was about being crowned the world’s worst axe throwing dad. I gave it a good effort in putting a point to it – not the axe, but the story – as my 10-year old son, Royal, bested me in every way. Even to my delight. But a comment left on […]
Axe Throwing with Royal
Last week I was the Keynote Speaker for 2 different companies who just so happened to book me at the SAME event center in the SAME city on back to back afternoons! That is considered the greatest luck of the draw for someone in my kind of career and worth 3 exclamation points!!! That meant […]
Best Lanyard Maker of All-Time: The Legend of Yori Lim
Are you ever assigned to do little things that don’t seem to matter? Have you ever been in charge of making a lanyard for an event? Have you ever seen a lanyard and thought, “Does anyone care about how pathetic and cheap this looks?” Arriving at Stinker Stores in Idaho for their […]
The Importance of Mediocrity
Glancing social media we will notice quickly our mediocrity in the face of everyone’s great accomplishments. The importance of mediocrity is realizing and embracing the fact that you have talents I don’t have, and I have talents you don’t want! I spent 3 days recently trying to fix an issue in our bathroom as the […]
Mom vs. dad
The difference between me being gone for 1 Week vs. my wife being gone for 1 Day is astounding. When I leave for work the ecosystem of our home seems to just know what to do, the kids are capable of continuing to function, life goes on, Mom handles it flawlessly. When Mommy leaves […]
LOL Funeral
Did you hear the one about the Mom who sent “LOL” regarding the passing of a loved one? In this case it was the older generation innocently texting & trying, thinking LOL stood for, “Lots of Love”, not the “Laughing Out Loud” that has become today’s version of the abbreviation. Texting & Trying is Drinking […]
The Perfect Prom Ask & Response
A few months ago the doorbell rang after 11 PM. My daughter ran to open it and started screaming. Assuming a murderer had politely rung first, I leaped from bed grabbing a samurai sword, shotgun, and silly putty (in case I needed to make a bouncy ball or do some fingerprinting). Ella screamed because […]