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Have You Experienced Family Un-Bonding?
Do you have moments in which even when your family is together, they’re not really together? Like when you’re driving somewhere, and everyone has their headphones in, watching videos, listening to...
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My Summer Experiment
So I just signed up for a cool-looking online photography course being put on by the awesome Andrea Scher of Superhero Designs. I’ve never done anything like this before. It’s six weeks long and I...
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Return from Portland (and World Domination)
“In the face of overwhelming pressure to conform, how do we live a remarkable life in a conventional world?” That was the question at the heart of the first ever World Domination Summit in Portland,...
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Gooey Goodness at the Grilled Cheese Grill
As I mentioned in a recent post about our first visit to Portland, one of my favorite parts about the city was the food carts. There are tons of these things, clustered in various locations, featuring...
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The Lesson of Lucy’s Doughnut
This is what a doughnut with chocolate frosting and sprinkles looks like when my daughter Lucy is done eating it. I’ve never seen an adult eat a doughnut like this. Clearly, she doesn’t know the proper...
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What Taking Pictures Taught Me About the Power of Play
The photo above is not some Photoshop trick. It’s a real shot of me responding to a damsel in distress whom I heard with my super hearing. (Actually it’s the result of dozens and dozens of violent...
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Do You Love What You’re Doing As Much As This Duck?
Kim and I took Lucy and two of her cousins to a Madison Mallards baseball game recently. I brought my camera and managed to snap a few photos of Millie, one of the mascots, and she danced down the...
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How Shamu Helped Me With My Stop Doing List
A few weeks ago I shared my recently written “Stop Doing List“, inspired by Danielle LaPorte. Among the 30 things I hope to stop, I was able to tackle one this week head on and it felt REALLY good. It...
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Boringly Normal? Pffft. You Just Might Be Extraordinary.
I recently wrote a post about why normal sucks. In almost every single instance, it really does. Interestingly, there are many people who might consider their lives to be quite ordinary. They examine...
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Happiness Isn’t Complicated
We search for it in bigger screen TVs, cars with fancier features, and vacations farther from home. Happiness is really nothing more complicated than playing hooky on a beautiful afternoon and sharing...
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My Little Old Rental Car
This is the rental car they gave me for a recent run of speaking gigs in Minnesota. A 2011 Dodge Freaking Charger. It makes me feel like I’m driving the Batmobile. Yes, I know it’s white. But I’m...
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Breakfast of (Hula Hoop) Champions
Eating Froot Loops is like eating candy for breakfast. Shocking then, why I love them so. It seems like you should be able to tell a lot about someone by what kind of breakfast cereal a person eats....
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What My Babymoon Taught Me About Making Dreams Come True
When we booked our first speaking gig in Alaska, neither Kim nor I had ever heard of a babymoon. According to the hip kids these days, a babymoon is like a honeymoon. Except in reverse. On an...
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Want to live a better story? Ditch your New Year’s resolution and do this...
How’s your New Year’s resolution going? If you’re like most people, you either thought to yourself, “Wait, what was my new year’s resolution?” or just descended into a shame spiral. Me, I’m not a big...
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Everything Becomes Easier If You Have This
One of the biggest barriers to success — in anything — is lack of focus. That we might be unfocused is also a hard thing to admit about ourselves. Because being focused seems too limiting — too small....
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Look Who’s Talking (Or At Least Looks Like It)
Wouldn’t it be cool to have a device that could tell you what babies are thinking at any given moment? Only time will tell if my son Ben will grow up to be a speaker, but I sure would pay a lot of...
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Humor Isn’t for Everyone
“I realize humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.” –Anne Wilson Schaef
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We Decorated Our Kitchen with Cereal
I’ve been playing with a neat macro lens borrowed from my buddy Judson, doing a series of up-close photos of cereal (my secret love). Last weekend, I painted our kitchen — the barrage of beige was...
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Savoring Details (And a Reminder from Ferris Bueller)
One of Kim’s favorite words is “savor.” The dictionary defines the verb this way: “to have experience of, to taste or smell with pleasure, or to delight in.” For Kim, it’s a reminder, a goal, and an...
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The World is Filled with Awesome Things
This is a photo by Allard Schlager of a real live tulip field in The Netherlands. I am convinced that you could live one hundred lifetimes and never see all of the wonders this world has to offer. It...
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