Confession: I am “The Late Guy”, and am Quitting Cold Turkey!

Today, 2/11/2009 I am walking through the curtains of delusion and confessing something to the world. Get ready. Dramatic Pause. Wait for it. Pause. I am “THE LATE GUY” :::tucks head in shame:::

Today, the wellsprings of life hath been revived anew. I am quitting cold turkey! I have decided to change my habits to show more consideration to my prompt and punctilious wife.[...]

Focus on Your Marriage During the Holidays, Plan Your Commitments

It is amazing how we’ve made holidays that should be peaceful, relaxing, and loving into hectic mad-houses of frustration and exhaustion. We all seem to have this tendency to over commit and over extend ourselves with trips all over the state to appease parents, grand parents, sibling, aunts, uncles, family friends… the list is endless.

In the endless pursuit to make everyone happy, we grumble, have crappy attitudes, criticize, complain, yell at each other, only to get to our location and engage with family with exhaustion and superficiality. In doing this we risk emptying our marriages / families of love, compassion, and understanding.[...]