How well do you see the world? Can you hear or see a thing or a person or an idea for what it truly is? Or does everything you perceive pass through a filter? And does that filter change what you see, like light that is refracted after passing through a lens? Does the world, […]
I recently told you about our latest adoption. We are making progress. I believe it is going to happen. But right now, it isn’t easy. The issue has to do with our son’s age. In China, orphans can be adopted up to age 14. Once you turn 14 you are no longer elgible to be […]
Whenever I tell my kids I love them, I try to show them how much. I try by telling them that I would do anything for them. I would go to the ends of the world. And back again. I will always be there for them. I will hold back nothing I have. I will […]
From Jeremy: Last year I featured a series of articles about a few secretly incredible people. And while it has been over a year, there is one more person to tell you about. I want you to meet my wife, Amanda. She is an incredible wife and mother. Without her, my own story wouldn’t be […]
As an orthopedic surgeon, I treat broken bones. Despite years of seeing it happen over and over again, I am still amazed at how well bone heals. Bone can grow new bone. Broken pieces grow back together and become mechanically competent. Rarely does my job involve trying to get new bone to form. Most of […]
I am thankful for so much. For my wife. For my children. All six of them. Even the ones that yell when they don’t get what they want. Which is all of them at some point or another. For the son I hope to meet very soon. For my extended family, including a brand new […]
Does your life, the story you are trying to tell, feel like a struggle? Two Types of Paths The city opened a new park near our house. Multiple farms were welded together like a jigsaw puzzle, stitched one to another with fences and paved roads and walking paths. The park stretches for miles. And it […]
My wife and I are up to no good again. This is the beginning of a new chapter in our story. We adopted two children from China the summer before last, returning home in August of 2012. Adoption is easily the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. The last fifteen months have […]
In his book Sex God: Exploring the endless connections between sexuality and spirituality (affiliate link), Rob Bell gives advice to young women when they consider whom they will date. He suggests a few questions to ask. Questions whose answers will help them decide how the man in question really feels about them. Whose answers will […]
I recently read Outliers (affiliate link) by Malcolm Gladwell. The book is about how some stand out beyond all others. In the first section he uses a forest and tall trees as a metaphor: Biologists often talk about the “ecology” of an organism: the tallest oak in the forest is not the tallest just because it grew […]
