Here's my final video blog post from the SCORRE Conference, which I attended last week. The conference helps communicators organize and present virtually any kind of information in a clear manner. The need for the conference became apparent when the organizers conducted a study of 2,500 individuals who had attended a series of speaker events and found the following results: 75% of attendees could not communicate the purpose of the speech they had just heard; 50% of the speakers … [Read more...]
September 29, 2012 By 4 Comments
If You’ve Ever Been Afraid to Try…
Last evening I was trolling around the web when I came across this incredible compilation video that I've embedded below. It is an amalgamation of snippets of people doing some incredible tricks, stunts and skills. As goofy as it sounds, this montage inspired me to take action on a couple of projects that I had been avoiding - because of fear. I hope you find this "fearless" collection of clips as inspiring and entertaining as I did. The little girl slide-parking her bike with … [Read more...]
August 23, 2012 By 10 Comments
3 Traits We Correct in Our Kids But Ignore in Ourselves
One of the things I love about my family is that we take regular walks together around our neighborhood. It's been during these walkabouts over the years that I've noticed three traits in our kids that my wife and I have tried to correct when they manifest. Distraction Anybody who has walked with a toddler knows that they want to stop and look at every stone, sidewalk crack, bug and dried worm that might catch their little eye. These constant side excursions often turn what should have … [Read more...]
August 2, 2012 By 11 Comments
I’ve Been Drafted…
It seems I've been recruited into a battle of bloggers. The masterminds of this battle royale are Rob Shepard and Ricky Anderson respectively - who are actually great friends but highly competitive. In fact, these two guys are so stoked by the thrill of competition - they've pooled resources and commisioned an original cartoon drawing of all us blogging "combatants" by the gifted artist Wes Molebash. [EdiTOR's Note: In the picture above, I'm depicted on the right hand side, third … [Read more...]
July 16, 2012 By 18 Comments
Parenting Tips From a Friend – Guest Post
Tor, I know you've done this before. You have two beautiful young girls. You're a great dad. You've raised them well. But you're rusty. It's been a while since you've had a brand new young'n. I thought I'd give you some tips on what's changed since you've been out of practice. Poop No change. Still stinky and manages to get places you'd rather it didn't. Food It's not just Gerber jars of greenish goo anymore. The cool new trend is to make it yourself from purely hippie, er, … [Read more...]
January 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Rapper Rails Against Empty Sex
You may not have heard of faith-based poet/rapper Jefferson Bethke, but he recently had a YouTube video go viral and received national media attention for a spoken piece he performed about why he hated religion but loved Jesus. Below is another installment of Bethke's that a close friend of mine (Beeg you know who you are) shared with me a few days ago. It's only four minutes long and should be viewed by every husband who's currently in a good, middling or bad marriage. … [Read more...]
January 26, 2012 By 3 Comments
7 Questions With an Author: Jason Boyett
This post marks another installment of my “7 Questions With an Author…” series, where I ask published authors an unchanging set of questions and share their responses here. Today’s co-featured author is an online acquaintance of mine named Jason Boyett. He’s a bestselling author with more than 10 books, an events speaker, an embarrassingly prolific writer with published work on Salon, The Daily Beast and The Washington Post as well as a dedicated dad and husband. Jason is one of … [Read more...]
