Getting the hutch home safely was as big a relief as I expected.

Probably no father is satisfied with his son (but hopefully One is).

Its a really quiet house when everyone is at a friend’s for the day and grandma plays with the 3-year-old.

I feel like there’s more to say but I’m not sure what it is.

Nice to hear praise from my boss. It was almost worth the 6-year wait.

You have to love it when a plan comes together.

The gray area between doing nothing and overreacting is huge.

Check under the truck before you back up in case there’s a volleyball there.

Get the manual off the internet, take it step by step, and you can save a repair call.

Evil is not somewhere “out there”, it’s in the dark part of my heart.

Ask the Craigslist seller with the nice covered trailer if they’ll deliver the dining room set before you drive out there and find out it won’t fit in your Suburban.

Nice to see him friendlier and happier than he’s been in years.

An early and productive start lead to a good day all around (but I need the “early to bed” part of the equation, too.)

Immediate gratification and delayed pain is usually the opposite of what works best.

Don’t be so focused on “winning” right now, that you keep yourself from winning something bigger.

No matter how much it provokes you, you don’t have to respond to everything someone says.

Good sense make a man slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
– Proverbs 19:11

Others will do what you say right up to the point they see you doing the opposite.

I hate it when Friday feels like Saturday because I don’t have any work.

Don’t take such a big pull on your mocha frappe that the ice cold liquid hits the back of your throat. (At least not more than once.)

Working at becoming the person you want to be remembered as changes how you behave.