Love is Greater Than …Life through a lens of love and hope

I feel like I live in two different worlds.
I grew up catholic, the first fourteen-ish years of my life were spent with my butt planted on a horribly uncomfortable wooden pew, imagining myself anywhere else than listening to whatever the priest had to say. Even though I grew up in church, I never paid attention [...]

We’ve been in Albuquerque almost two months now. It hasn’t been long enough for us to start really feeling “home” yet. So when we hop on a Frontier airlines Airbus in a few days to head back to Toledo for some late Christmas celebrations, it will have the distinct feeling of “going home.” We’re only [...]

Talking about Fall yesterday and reminiscing on how Fall is a season of firsts had me feeling pretty nostalgic. I decided to look back over some of my old posts, and I came across this, that I wrote almost two years ago to the day… I find it incredibly timely, and reason in and of [...]

I had this thought today while driving across town, listening to the song Dreamland by Our Lady Peace (song and lyrics embedded at the bottom of this post)…
It’s far too easy in this day and age to blame anyone other than ourselves for anything that isn’t going right in our lives.
My boss screwed me.
My spouse [...]

i’ve been called cocky. i’ve been called full of myself. it always humors me that the people who make these judgements on me are generally the people who know me the least. ask some of my closest friends, and they’ll tell you right away that not only am i a pretty humble guy (i would [...]