Anxiety and Depression: I Surrender All (Sort Of)

I know better than to ask an expert on anxiety and depression to be a guest on our show. Naturally, just days before my interview with Michelle Lazurek, my computer crashed. I mean dead. So, there I lay. In bed in the middle of the night. Wide awake. Totally stressed,...

Your Wife Wishes You Knew This: Top 3 Things

What are the top 3 things your wife wishes you knew? In case you want to ask her, here’s a place to start. David making me laugh as usual. #1 Listen to the people you love.  #2 Remember marriage and family are about redemption. #3 Cherish your people today...

The Politics of Generosity: Reclaiming Our Nation’s Misspent Vocabulary

Women’s Fund Executive Director Zoe Lawhorn, let me write whatever I wanted to. Now, there’s an irresistible invitation for any writer! I called it, The Politics of Generosity: Reclaiming Our Misspent Vocabulary. Women’s Fund of Smith County...

Mother-in-law, Daughter-in-law, Mentoring: Relationships Can Go Right

I couldn’t wait to interview family expert Deb DeArmond. But what to ask her first? We chose to focus on the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship.  Author, Speaker, and Life Coach Deb DeArmond with husband, Ron. Deb packed this episode with wisdom from her...

Family Fatigue: Building Back Better Families with Deb DeArmond

Got “family fatigue”? With the holidays over, we all know family fatigue is real. I wish I’d coined the phrase, family fatigue. But I borrowed it from a wise friend. I thought I’d find family fatigue all over the internet. But maybe my friend invented it. Just in...

Transitional Housing: Homelessness and PATH’s Ideas that Work

Just when the media fills our screens with pictures of people collapsed on the side walk surrounded by trash and wasted needles, PATH offers us hope. Can homelessness and hope even exist in the same news story without some kind of bizarre holiday-inspired...