By Greg Primm Eight months. Eight months since I last sat down at the keyboard just let the words come out with no agenda. It’s amazing what can happen in such a short time. In many ways, my life is painfully the same. In other ways, life is changing so fast I can’t possibly keep [...]
by The Howitzer What if I told you it was possible for your children to be wise? How would you like it if your kids moved from naivety to knowledge? Where would your sons end up if they understood the words of the wise and their riddles? Is it possible for your daughters to be [...]
by The Howitzer I met George over 10 years ago. I had taken a new position in a church and was spending some time getting to know some of the guys in my congregation. As George and I began the twenty-question game, it was obvious that he had some dreams and aspiration burning in his [...]
By Charlie Loften One of my all-time favorite stories in our family history didn’t happen to me and I wasn’t even there. 15 years later, despite my tendency to exaggerate stories, I have yet to tell this story as if it happened to me or I was there. That’s remarkable for me. Anywho, it was the [...]
By Greg Primm I was 21 years old on my final interview with one of the largest accounting firms in the country. It was a top job for someone coming out of my school’s accounting program. After lunch with a group of young staff members who were just a year or two out of school [...]
By Greg Primm For the third year in a row, my family dragged me, kicking and screaming, to a small camp that our church puts on each Memorial Day for kindergaren, 1st, and 2nd graders and their families. Each year, I try to weasel my way out of it. I make every excuse in the [...]
by The Howitzer I am Rosemary’s granddaughter, the spitting image of my father, and when the day is done my momma’s still my biggest fan. Sometimes I’m clueless and I’m clumsy, But I’ve got friends that love me And they know just where I stand. It’s all a part of me, and that’s who I [...]
by The Howitzer (aka Dr Slacker) For years, I have embraced the wrong mindset. I admit that when I thought about doing housework I was attempting to help my wife. As she and I talked through our perspectives related to housework it would inevitably come up that I was not “helping enough”. Somewhere along the [...]
By Greg Primm My oldest daughter Allison is a planner, much like her dad. Most Saturday mornings, she wants to know the schedule of events for the day. A recent Saturday looked something like this: breakfast, soccer game, lunch, errands, another soccer game, yard work at home, dinner, watch a movie, then bed. Everything goes [...]
by The Howitzer (aka Doctor Slacker) I can still remember the night like it was yesterday. My wife and I had a trusted friend spending the night at our house while he was in town for a business meeting. This friend knew us both pretty well and had been a great source of advice over [...]