Raising Real Men

I don’t know about you, but I’m dropping so many balls, I’m in danger of getting a concussion! So, I was delighted when Mary Jo Tate offered me the opportunity to review her teleseminar course, How Do You Do It All? Let me tell you, I need to figure this one out! Our friends call…
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Last night at 3am there wasn’t a flake to be seen, but by 6am snow was absolutely everywhere. No big deal if you live in Maine, but in eastern North Carolina, it’s a very rare occurrence. The biggest snow we’d had was the snow-icaine of 2000. We got 11 inches, which is about 5 times…
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Several years ago, it occurred to us that maybe the teenaged years didn’t have to be full of anger, rebellion, and sullenness. Just because we went through it or saw it in our friends growing up, does that mean it has to be that way? Is that what you see in the Bible? Through history?…
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As a writer and freelance journalist, probably 90% of what I do is on the computer – research on the Internet, interviews via email, writing on the word processor, number crunching with spreadsheets, promotion on Facebook. If you go in a college classroom today, you’ll find laptops have replaced notebooks, professors’ websites have replaced handouts,…
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We’re celebrating the official release of Raising Real Men with freebies and contests! I grew up in an entrepreneurial family and I have to confess that when we were first married, I thought it was great that Hal went to work and then came home and was done. Over the years, though, life as an…
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Hey guys, some of you may be familiar with Jeff & Kate Estes of Hands and Hearts history kits and their awesome blog but we didn’t meet them until last year when they reached out to help us deal with the financial aftermath of our little Katie’s heart problem. Their love and good counsel was…
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This was an interesting story in the Raleigh News & Observer today:  A successful entrepreneur goes into the local prisons and teaches inmates how to start their own business when they get out.  His “start small and work hard” approach is good advice not only for felons on their way out of prison but for…
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