Top 5 and Why: Current Fatherhood Books
1. The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Tell Your Family History, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More Bruce Feiler’s “Secrets” tops our…
To Build a Private Pirate Snowman: On Dreams and Parenting
It was just past the New Year and only three days in to the second half of the school year, and wham: Snow in Chattanooga. Beautiful on…
5 Takeaways from ‘Daily Rituals’: Serious Creatives and How They Make it Happen
“It’s no easy business to be simple.” Gustave Flaubert had a terrible time keeping his life and art simple in the ways he wanted them. Of…
2 Things I Discovered While Reading the Improbability Principle
“If something can happen, given enough time and enough opportunities (according to the law of very large numbers), it will happen.” What does David J. Hand…
10 Ways to Become the Ideal Passive Adventurer: on Mac Orlan’s Handbook
“Adventure is in the mind of the one who pursues it.” A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer makes a case for two kinds of adventurers, active and passive–and…
On Concussions: Three Explanations for My Split Personality
Concussions are serious business. Knees can be replaced, not heads. Take me. I played almost zero organized football, but easily experienced at least three concussions. After…
Literary Chops and the Status Quo
Okay, so Hanging Chad hasn’t hung it up. Just gone through an identity crisis. Yes, another one. Who’s counting? But these internal tectonic shifts are somehow…
An Orange-Blue Hue: Allman Brothers All-Time Top Five
Greg Allman is at it again. He’s writing memoirs and having seventh marriages. He has hepatitis and is long-lived for a man who’s lived so many…
Gary Vaynerchuck Crushes It
“You gotta find the DNA of your message.” However our own approach to our message and product ends up translating, there’s something infectious about the way…
First-Hand Truth Behind the Rumors of the Video Game Secret
I used to think I had it all figured out. If my oldest, Eliah, who is now 10, wanted extra video game time, no worries. We…
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