Children caring for aging elders is uniquely beautiful, precisely because often the child knows their love can’t be reciprocated.
All in Fatherhood
Backyard Ball
“One more play! One more play!”
“I’m not going anywhere.”
How do we make a promise to be around, when we must contend with an unpredictable life?
2023: The Year of ‘Not Helpless’
2023 taught me a powerful lesson: facing fears and owning up to my choices proves that, really, we're never helpless.
Children bring out our best
In the company of children, we naturally embrace a kindness often lost among adults. It's this child-inspired grace I believe we can extend to all our interactions.
The problem isn’t that my phone is distracting, it’s that my intentions are weak.
The world needs more people to function as artists in everyday life.
We survived by learning to make adjustments.
Our kids can be our role models as we try to rediscover play and the fun we lost.
How often we adjust our style is a good leadership metric.
There’s a secular lesson to take from Matthew 11: don’t over-regulate children. I want to try, at least, to simplify.
Thank you, teachers, for everything you do and have done - for me, for our three sons, and for all children. We have all yearned for the rain to drench our gardens, and you have made it pour.
I’m witnessing a brotherhood form. This is my deepest joy as a father.
To be held is to be loved.
My love needs to be big enough so that my sons never have to fight for it. It must be infinite.
At work, we shouldn’t depend on our companies to find purpose and meaning for us. We have the capability to find it for ourselves.
To break the cycle, I must engage in self-purification that results in direct action.
Life can transform us from selfish into something more gracious - if we let it.
Taking responsibility and doing the right thing to help others is what defines a leader, celebrity doesn’t.