Category: Family
Parenting, Relationships, Kids’ Activities, Family Events, Traditions, Creative Projects, Support Systems.
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My little girl favors friction and challenging others’ ideas. One day her ideas might be the best ideas in the room. One day her opinions, admiration, or approval will be sought after. It’s up to me to help her direct that energy into constructive outcomes. She will be a person that’s compassionate and forgiving with…
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Granpa Tilley passed away last night. No more weakness or medications. No more pain and denial. He lived a long, full life. His body let him down before his mind did, so he watched it all playout aware. Two Funerals My grandmother will bury her Ride or Die this year. The year she buried her…
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To all my courteous friends be your wallets so kind to briskly pour into my cup and buy every book i write i want few things more in life than streams of adulation but i seek to pad my pockets nigh and spare meine Kinder Mississippi education
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The kids were not visibly sad when I let them go with their mom.
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The kids give me life. It would be so awesome if they could have a conversation with me. It’s so many years from now when they’ll understand all of this visitation and short phone calls. I’m not a patient man. I have to slowly watch the hours and days and weeks go by until my…
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I get to talk to the children on Sunday nights before bedtime. The last 4 calls, only my daughter (3) answers the phone during the designated window of time their mother turns on the phone. She talks really well, but on the phone I can understand a few words at a time. I can understand…
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Today, the word legacy has been ringing in my head. With my mother’s side of the family, The Wrights, I’m part of building something special. Something that will impact the generations after us. It’s the idea of connecting the family in a fast-moving, modern time. Family Reunion 2020 The family reunion of July 2020 is…
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I was busy being in the moment. Me and the kids and family had a great daddy weekend.
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I sat down with attorney today for the first time. It was our first time meeting in person. Tomorrow morning, her and I sit down with the judge, my wife, and my wife’s attorney to sort this family-damaging shyt out. Sorry for the profanity. I intended to be completely professional. I’m beyond confident in our…
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There are so many ways to earn income. I try to put on friends and family as often as possible when I find news ways to save or earn money. Most of the ways are passive (via referrals and things like that) or ways that involve what they do day to day regularly. It’s painful…
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I took a walk to get Annie some food from the pet store, came back home, and wrote 2800 words. Fiction. I guess. I imagined myself as an old man in the hospital being visited by my adult children who have children of their own. I can’t say exactly where the inspiration came from. I…