Writing

  • Honoring Papaw
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    Honoring Papaw

    After my grandfather passed away late last year at 98 years old, his “retirement job” of 31 years, named a building after him.

  • Anxiety of Youth
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    Anxiety of Youth

    I asked Teresa if she was excited about starting Kindergarten next year. I’m really excited, but I’m nervous about waking up so early like my sisters. I wake up her…

  • Happy Annunciation!
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    Happy Annunciation!

    Why is the Solemnity of the Annunciation celebrated 15 days late this year?

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    Texas Leading Innovation

    This is why I chose UT-Austin for my undergraduate education. An institution of the first class, they solve problems that most aren’t yet aware exists.

  • CEO Patch
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    CEO Patch

    Girl Scouts have patches for everything. When you meet the CEO of the region, she gives girls a patch like commanders do with military challenge coins.

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    Coaching Debut

    Tomorrow, the Delwood Grasshoppers make their tee ball debut with their first-time head coach (me). If everyone runs to first base, I'm going to celebrate like I hit a walk-off…

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    Keeping It Clean

    I went through my debug log tonight, which had been a bit long mainly due to older plugins throwing warnings in PHP 7. Of four plugins generating PHP 7 warnings,…

  • The Work Speaks For Itself
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    The Work Speaks For Itself

    In leadership, whether that is of a household, of a monastery, or of a corporate team, some of our most damaging actions take place only because we aren’t fully thinking…

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    Children’s Allergies

    Over on the Daddy Blog, I shared a video of a 4-minute presentation I gave on one of the challenges of having a kiddo with food allergies. Watch the video…

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    Venmo’s Defaults

    Venmo’s default settings are very uncomfortable. I’ve never used this payment service by PayPal before and, by default, I am friends with all of my phone’s contacts—I opted out of…