The Karate Kid's tournament is twenty minutes. Everything people quote is in the other hundred. What the boring parts of a movie taught me about the boring parts of a life.
Dead, Dead, Dead
The car was dead in the parking lot at work. Twenty years ago it would have ruined my evening. This week it didn't, and I've been thinking about why.
The Pen That Fits My Hand
I draft books by talking into my phone. It isn't a shortcut. It's thirty years of youth groups, conference rooms and Toastmasters finally getting a pen that fits.
Autonomy Is a Lie
Most relationship problems aren't about toothpaste or love languages. They're about someone who won't let the person they chose change them. I married at 20, before I'd set, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Still Out There at Two O’Clock
I manage projects for a living, and I still estimated my lumber rack wrong. I planned the build and forgot the part where it has to go on the wall.
