I scrolled past a video the other day that I can’t even find again. It was a husband and a wife. They had been in some kind of fight. The husband offered an olive branch. The wife took it. There were no theatrics. Just two people who clearly respected each other and clearly loved each … Continue reading Tonight (and Everyday) I’m Grateful for My Wife
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The Drift: How Some Relationships Die Quietly
I have watched partnerships I didn’t think would end, end. Not in dramatic blowups. No financial scandal. No moment where an outsider could point and say that’s where it broke. Just a slow erosion of what made the partnership work, until something tested it and it couldn’t hold the weight. The drift is what I … Continue reading The Drift: How Some Relationships Die Quietly
I’m Tired, and That’s Allowed
I’m thirty-five days into the third round of a year-long challenge that has me running seven habits every day. Across the year I’ve kept a near-daily exercise practice, published two books with a third in proof, built and grown a daily Bible illustration project that’s reached a real audience, started writing songs again, held a … Continue reading I’m Tired, and That’s Allowed
The Beauty of Routines
Most writing about habits frames them as productivity tools. Build the right habit, do the thing, become the more efficient version of yourself. The vocabulary is discipline, willpower, accountability, consistency. That’s not why I built mine. I built mine to give my brain somewhere to go when it would otherwise reach for food, wine, or … Continue reading The Beauty of Routines
What the Scale Wasn’t Telling Me
For about six weeks, the scale stopped moving. I’d been showing up every day. At least thirty minutes of exercise on regular days, an hour or more on 7-40 Challenge days. I’ve gone through two pairs of running shoes this year — the kind that are supposed to last four to five hundred miles each. … Continue reading What the Scale Wasn’t Telling Me
