With her tiny hands, she lifts Sadness up towards me in the same way I did when I knelt down and introduced them, the day Sadness became more than just a talking plush doll.
How Pink Gloves Boxing Found Its Strength – Part 2
Let’s face it: women are still outspoken in the classroom, still paid less for the same jobs, and still under-represented in leadership positions.
Pink Gloves Boxing founder Garret Garrels at TEDx Whitefish
After teaming up with fellow football player, Nick Milodragovich, in just three short years, Pink Gloves Boxing was recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine's Top 100 Innovative Businesses.
Helping America Smile: Making an Impact on Oral Health
Unfortunately, very few people know that tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease in America, five times more common than asthma in children.
Home, Home
The challenging moments are frustrating for him and overwhelming for us. But between them, in the interstitials of a very full life, lies endless beauty.
Pessimism, Optimism and Freeing My Truest Self
Pessimism is easy it turns out. Not easy to endure, but SO MUCH EASIER to maintain than optimism. Pessimism is cloaked in world-weary, leathery toughness, but it's all an act. It's really just fear dressed up. Now, if you know an optimist that person is a badass. BAD. ASS.
Dear Dad, You’re Doing It All Wrong (A Letter to Myself)
Stop trying to seize every moment. Stop trying to make your children’s lives extraordinary. Instead, allow every ordinary moment to seize you. Your kids’ lives are unfolding one moment at a time, and the thing they want most is also the thing they need most.
The Day the Sprinklers Made Me Hot
I've been thinking a lot about that day and how I've been so quick to become frustrated with them lately. I don't like it. I'm going to make a conscientious effort to be more patient and kind with them and to remember that they are just little guys
Brothers
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Renovation Time
My kids don’t teach me; they are me. They are the reflection of me that I don’t or won’t or can’t see in the moment when they are behaving badly – when they’re the ones taking stuff from other kids.