Posts from February 2021
Boundaries – Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?
Most of us have heard that phrase – good fences make good neighbors. But is that true? After all, aren’t we supposed to be breaking down barriers rather than putting them up? Don’t walls just keep people apart? Well, yes…and no. Let’s dive in, shall we? History time! If we could go back in time to the Old West and journey beyond the borders of the Ponderosa and past the OK Corral, we would find ourselves embroiled in an age-old…
Social Media Tragedy
It would surprise us if it weren’t so common. But every time it happens it still breaks our hearts. This past week a famous relationship therapist revealed her 16 year old son, bored from the many months of quarantine, had been approached by a drug dealer on Snapchat. The teen thought he was buying Xanax, but it was actually Xanax laced with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid similar to morphine, but 50 to 100 times more potent. The teen was a…
Getting ahead in a digital world
Last weekend, my wife and I discovered our phones were running much slower than normal. We decided to go to the local AT&T store and see if we could wipe them of their content or if we were just out of luck. It turned out not be our lucky day, so we ended up having to upgrade. While waiting for our upgrade to be finished, my 4-year-old, Raegan turned to me and said, “Daddy, I want a phone too.” We…