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Why I’m shelling out for one of life’s best investments I’m tucking an eight-year-old into bed. We’ve been throwing a baseball and eight o’clock has arrived too fast. “Sometimes I get sad,” he says as I pull the covers high. “Me too, Andrey. Whatcha thinking about?” He frowns and shakes his brown curls at my…

Is there something you wish you could do, but can’t? I feel your pain. There are things I can’t do. At my age, and in my condition, I can’t complete a standing backflip without ending up on a hospital gurney. Due to the dimensions of my stomach, I cannot eat that 76-ounce steak at Bubba’s…

Here are excuses made by tenants who couldn’t pay their rent: “With my daughter’s graduation, our new boat, and our trip to Europe, we’re a little strapped for cash.” “I didn’t pay the rent because I’m saving up to move.” “I would have paid the rent, but I thought I needed it more than you.”…

Back to School? Make sure you’re connected to the right source When the school year begins, I like to recall funny things written in yearbooks. In one, a guy named Amith wrote: “I am not Amith. I am a legend.” Eric wrote, “Good grades are important, but big biceps are importanter.” Like Eric, school was not…

Marks on a tattered measuring chart in our pantry are proof: children grow up fast. Most nights Mojo the faithful hound slept at our teenage daughter Rachael’s feet. Boys were showing interest in her (Rachael, not the dog). So she taped a Bible verse to her bedroom door: Psalm 56:1: “Have mercy on me, oh…

It took Hank Aaron 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. Later he said, “I did it one afternoon on the golf course.” One of my favourite baseball voices is that of L.A. Dodgers announcer, Vin Scully, who passed away in 2022—at 94. Vin was celebrated for his gift of storytelling, his mastery of…

Here’s advice from one who has learned the hard way: While your wife is giving birth, do not stand beside her bed and complain about your hangnail. Compassion and empathy are great gifts in a hurting world. Earlier this week a couple stopped by. They’ve endured more setbacks than the designers of the Ford Pinto.…

I love these new studies that come out. Here’s one: Humans eat more bananas than monkeys. I think it’s true. I’ve eaten tons of bananas, but no monkeys. A mom asked her young son to go outside and bring her the broom. It was coalmine black on that porch, so the little guy shivered and…

3 Lies I Believed About God Here are a few whoppers parents have told. One Dad admitted, “I told my kids that if they didn’t behave in the McDonald’s drive-thru they’d get a Sad Meal.” A mom told her kids that the TV didn’t work except when it rained. My brothers told me whoppers, and…