by admin | Mar 27, 2015 | Essays, Peter's blog
Karen and I were having lunch with our daughter-in-law Jen and our granddaughter Sophie last Sunday after church when Sophie took off with her G-ma scurrying behind her in hot pursuit. The restaurant had a very distracting store in its lobby with brightly colored...
by admin | Mar 22, 2015 | Essays, Peter's blog
My daughter Amanda lives 492 miles away from me. She’s in New York getting her second college degree. (Over-achiever.) We text and tweet and email a lot. Just little silly things, mostly. And sometimes I send her cookies. With maybe a sticky note inside. Or...
by admin | Mar 14, 2015 | Peter's blog
I’ve begun working on Volume 2 in The Dad Story Project book series, and thought I’d share the cover with you. There are two main reasons for doing this: 1) to get people excited, and 2) to give myself a kick in the pants! Making books isn’t hard,...
by admin | Feb 28, 2015 | Peter's blog
One of the most delightful aspects of this whole let’s-encourage-dads-ministry-thing (LEDMT) is making connections with like-minded people all over the place. It’s just been about eight weeks, and the Facebook and Twitter connections keep on growing, the...
by admin | Feb 25, 2015 | Peter's blog
Things are looking up! (For anyone who knows me, that’s pretty much how I feel every day.) But right now I’m talking specifically about the awesome initial reactions to the Exploding Cat book. Thirty-three reviews so far and they’re all 5 stars! And...
by admin | Feb 23, 2015 | Essays, Peter's blog, Submissions
EDITOR’S NOTE: For reasons of full disclosure, the story that follows is from my daughter, Amanda. That’s us, above, during a trail run when she was a junior in college. Her story was unsolicited. No, really. I was going to ask her and my son to write...