Tag: life lessons

  • The Joy of a Baby Calf

    The Joy of a Baby Calf

    I’m not a mother, so it’s really hard for me to speak to the joy of having a new baby either at home or the actual experience of bringing a baby into this world or home from the hospital. But I have recently found that there can be a lot of joy found in finding…

  • 20 Thoughts on Turning 30

    20 Thoughts on Turning 30

    Today, I have successfully amassed 10,950 days on Earth. A lot of has gone down in 30 years… The year I was born the New York Mets were the World Series Champions, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded and Top Gun was the number one movie at the box office. Cell phones, DVDs and Facebook were not…

  • Marriage is Not Like a Pizza

    Marriage is Not Like a Pizza

    Because pizzas are 1) delicious, 2) cheap and 3) easy to split in two. The latter reasoning is the topic of today’s post. Marriage is not like a pizza because marriage is not, nor will it ever be, half and half. In our household, all pizzas are 1/2 veggie-meat combo, 1/2 meat only. I’m the meatatarian…

  • Making the Choice

    Making the Choice

    Today I’ve been married to the Yak Judge for five years. A half decade that seems to have flown by more quickly than I ever could have imagined.    And every day for the past five years, I have made a conscious choice: I can either choose to love, respect, work with and conquer the world with…

  • 7 Things Leaders Can Learn From the Kansas City Royals

    7 Things Leaders Can Learn From the Kansas City Royals

    World Series Champions – 2015 Royals Photo courtesy: Kansas City Star I am one of those sports fan who had, until this year, never had a team, college or professional, win a league-wide championship. I have enjoyed several seasons of KSU Big12 conference success (GO CATS!) and a few brief shining moments of Kansas City Chiefs…