As 2021 draws to a close, my wife and I are listing the major events of the past year, striving to understand our lives better so as to be more intentional in the coming year. Making sense of it all can feel a bit like searching for needles in haystacks.More
Category Archives: Family
Enoch Theophilus Mullet Turns Six Years Old
Our second to youngest son just turned six, and I want to take a little time to talk about how much I love his name, plus the story of how we came up with it. More
Reflections on 15 Years of Marriage
On Saturday, November 25, 2006, I married Lauren Elizabeth Duff in Hillsboro, Ohio and she took my last name. I had just turned 20 and Lauren was 19.More
That Weird Homeschooling Family with All the Kids
We have for some time been known as “that family with all the kids.” With six sons and one daughter, now a seventh son due at the end of January, people notice our entrance. More
Whether Our Family Does Anything for Halloween
As a large and fairly conservative homeschooling family, I get the same question every year about this time. “Do you guys do anything for Halloween?”More
Lt. Colonel George F McFarland, 151st Pennsylvania
Lt. Colonel George F. McFarland, my great-great-great grandfather, commanded the 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers at the Battle of Gettysburg…More
Book Review: ‘Leadership Strategy and Tactics – Field Manual’ by Jocko Willink
In his latest work, Willink adeptly uses personal and practical examples to drive home and further explain concepts from earlier books which merit emphasis and clarification.More
And This Is Why We Got Married pt. 3
Women need love, and men need respect. And since we have these commands, we can assume that with God’s help men are capable of loving their wives and women are capable of respecting their husbands. More
And This Is Why We Got Married pt. 2
If we are going to have a Biblical attitude and mindset when it comes to marriage, we need also to examine singleness and divorce. More
And This Is Why We Got Married pt. 1
Someone recently asked me why anyone should bother with marriage. Isn’t it more trouble than it’s worth, particularly for men in our society?More