You may know that I maintain several different sites and blogs, and have for some time. It has been sort of a hobby for me over the years, and an excellent outlet for my writing. And most of those other websites have sprung out of this one for the most part. However, I have been ...
If you know anything about me at all, you know that I love coffee. I love everything about it. And as a dad, I need it. It started off with an innocent fixation with certain second wave coffee vendors that shall remain unnamed. Soon I started seeking better coffee, and then buying it in bean ...
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned in a Next Step post that you need to do something fun with your family this summer. We decided to go to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum, which is in Mansfield, Missouri, just a few miles from where we live. We did that over the weekend, ...
It’s summer time. June is half over, school is out, even summer school has wound down and summer is fully here. It’s a busy time of year. I have a love/hate relationship with summer. I love summer. I really do. Ok, not really. I actually hate summer. And here are a few reasons why. It’s ...
This is a busy season for my family. For the next couple of weeks, things will be pretty quiet around Deliberate Men. There are a couple of reasons for this. First of all, this weekend is packed with lots of activities. My oldest daughter turns 18 today, we are holding a graduation reception for her ...
My dad and I didn’t always have the best of relationships. We butted heads more often than I can remember, and on almost every topic imaginable. He had a hard time communicating his love and care for his family, and as his oldest child, I think I felt that more than the rest. That’s not ...