If you ask me, there is something almost therapeutic about finding tangible ways to experiment with greater efficiency and work flow with how we engage our spaces and what we do in them.More
Category Archives: Family
Bittersweet Reflections on Selling Our First Home
As we celebrate the bittersweet reality of selling our first home, we know our hopes to be more choosy this time around as we see the last chapter closing and a new one beginning.More
But Seek the Welfare of the City
What if God himself were to tell us the answer to our present troubles was building a nice house, planting a pleasant garden, taking a pretty wife, and having lots of children with her?More
Little House on the Prairie and Star Trek The Next Generation
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Gene Roddenberry answered these questions very differently. And speaking personally, I think Ms. Laura had the right of it by being humbler and more down-to-earth.More
I Want to Talk About Bruno and Disney’s Encanto
Encanto may just be a new favorite as it tackles some weighty issues where family dynamics are concerned while at the same time being lively, fun, colorful, and entertaining.More
How Psalm 127 Reads Differently After the Birth of Our Seventh Son
Now more than ever, I should understand our situation better in light of what God’s Word says here. So how does a father of eight children and seven sons read this passage?More
To Men Whose Wives Are in Labor
You too have a struggle. So I will share my experience, and hopefully that sharing will help you to be as calm and helpful to your wife and child as you can be in these times.More
Restorative Conservatism
Any conservative resurgence which might succeed in this country or any other must first work at a restoration of these seminal convictions. All other ground is sinking sand.More
Elon Musk Wants You to Have More Children
In serving the Lord, we embrace the Dominion Mandate to “be fruitful and multiply, fill the Earth and subdue it.” And as it turns out, trusting the science is on our side.More
Reviewing 2021 and Looking Forward to 2022
On the first day of the New Year, I finished copying notes on the year now past from Lauren’s and my Ink+Volt personal organizers. The finished Word document contains 11,008-words and is 29-pages long.More