How you view setbacks will determine how far you go. Did you notice I didn’t say how you handled setbacks, but rather how you viewed them? And how you view setbacks is decided by the first thing you decideto say about them. Example: my father is a positive person, ergo he dealt with nearly everything I can recall positively, including negative things. There were very few … Continue reading I Decided to
Working with men has an interesting dynamic. I’m not saying I prefer it to working with women because they always smell nicer but it does have a certain feel about it that I’ve spent much of my life working around. Example: My buddy Matt and I were digging post holes in his yard with one of those motored augers and, while hanging on for dear … Continue reading Men at Work
What a delightful week for most parents as we watched our children trudge off to school. It’s funny how July fades into August and what used to be a long awaited break gets eaten up in mornings slept in, too much tv, and the optimal emotional temperature that can only be brought about by spending far too many hours with the people we love the … Continue reading Summer Now and Then
Why is it that most mornings I’m half distracted when my girls are talking to me on the way to school? From Katie’s stories which are always far too detailed to hold my attention, to Neela’s ridiculous little ramblings about butterflies, it’s hard to focus. My older two talk on a different level about relationships and their subsequent pressures and joys, and I can’t help … Continue reading The Walk to School
My dad decided my wife needed a greenhouse so he bought her one. That’s the sort of thing dad does.. We had to level the base of a unit, and we only argued about most of it:) The base is the easy part, the rest has more pre made pieces than I ever like to see in anything, Working with my dad, or with anyone I know … Continue reading Working with my Dad
Some friends of ours had a baby last night. Quite an experience if you’ve never had one. I still remember the feeling I had the week we brought Arwen home. I was driving my work truck into the yard and said to myself “I will work as many jobs as I have to to provide for this little girl”. I still remember the … Continue reading Having Babies, and other Narrow Windows of Opportunity
COREY KOPE 