It's been that kind of week, which is always what happens when my wife is out of town. The structure and routine that define daily life is replaced by a helter-skelter make-it-up-as-I-go approach to the day. Stuff gets done, but it's just not as methodical. All of which got me thinking about the importance of daily routines
CHECKING IN
Ruminations over a French Press...My wife left this morning to see an old friend back east. There was a time when her absence meant day after day of pizza from the local joint, followed by a frantic hour of cleaning up the pile of takeout boxes before she came home. The boys and I ate so much Ballpark that I should have bought stock....
FIRST DO NO HARM
DAWN PATROL
TAKE YOUR MEDICINE MONDAY
WEEKEND BULLETS
RUNNING AND BREATHING
You raise your kids to grow up and be their best, never fully realizing that one day they will leave the house for good and chart a course of life adventures completely beyond any parental control. So it is that my oldest, somewhere out in the Pacific, is beginning a deployment with his squadron. . . .