A few days ago I felt moved to bring my favorite book down from the shelf. There are some big changes going on in my life right now. I just left the marketing agency I helped co-found six years ago for a visual marketing startup called Tailwind. In The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm doesn’t …
How To Play With Kids With Creative Abandon
When I started school, I was pretty unpopular. I was a chubby little cherub with a bowl haircut who liked drama and could barely kick a football, but by the time I graduated I was one of the most popular kids in school. I was never especially gregarious, rebellious or good looking; I was popular …
Sock Monkey Themed First Birthday Party Ideas & Decorations
I’ve been noticing that two of my old posts about Finn’s two year old Elmo Party and three year old pirate party are getting a warm reception, so I took some time to dig out the photos from his sock monkey themed first birthday party. I hope you find lots of ideas and inspiration. Deciding …
Pirate Birthday Party Ideas, Games & Decorations for 3 Year Old
I’ve been telling my wife that she needs to start a blog for years. This post will tell you everything you need to know about why: she loves to plunder Pinterest for good ideas and she loves to throw amazing birthday parties (see her Elmo and sock monkey parties)- this time it was a …
Don’t Eat My Oreo Cookie Balls
Oreo cookie balls taste amazing – like chocolate coated Oreo cookie dough. I made these for a Christmas party and they went down a storm. Ingredients: 1 pack of 32 Oreo cookies 1 12oz pack of cream cheese 1/2 a pack of white almond bark Recipe: Crush Oreo cookies into pieces about the size of …
Interview About Starting OKC’s Confluence Conference
I recently got a chance to spill my guts about my favorite topic of conversation – putting on Confluence blogging and digital influencer conference, here in Oklahoma City. As you can tell from the interview, it’s a subject I could talk about all day long. The conference was very definitely a labor of love. Here’s …
DIY Construction Site Play Box
The older our eldest son gets the more I want to build things for him. I’ve been kicking around an idea for a construction site play box so he can scoop and dump rocks and pretend to be working on the new road they’re building at the end of our block. Yesterday I made it …
Punta Cana: Food Poisoning & Diarrhea Strike Dominican Republic
I Survived #PoopaCana in the DR My pregnant wife, son and I took a vacation to Dreams Resort in Punta Cana back in late June, early July. On our second night in the Dominican Republic my wife and I came down with food poisoning. We became very sick, got chills, stomach ache and didn’t want …
Celebrity Death Crush
Last night, in bed, I told my wife, “Every celebrity I have a crush on dies.” I was talking about The Bachelor contestant Gia Allemand who recently committed suicide. My wife said, “You like girls who don’t like themselves very much.” Let’s address that. Brittany Murphy Great picture, but it’s not the girl I had …
Imitating a Police Officer
Yesterday I said to my wife as I was driving, “Did you know in America you can go to jail for imitating a police officer?” “Impersonating,” she said. And then we both cracked up. It took about a minute for us to settle back down. “That was an honest mistake.” “I know. It’s much more …