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 themselves, [...]

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 book, [...]

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 am! [...]

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 line [...]

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 well [...]

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 the [...]

by The Howitzer
It was obvious that my son was not going to obey me out of respect, love or fear.  I won’t tell you what I said but let if suffice that as soon as the words come out of my mouth I realized that I had officially gone over the edge.  Never mind that I [...]

By the Howitzer
It sucks you right into the abyss of wasted time.  I just spent the last two days of my vacation pouring over the details of getting my personal blog (thehowitzerrants.com) hosted on a new site.  A buddy of mine had recently been working on getting his blog updated and moved over from a [...]

by The Howitzer
Dear Josh,
Over the next several years you will spend much time gathering knowledge at school.  Already you have learned to read.  I remember just a couple of years ago when you were learning your letters.  Education is a great thing and your understanding of things will greatly increase as you spend time studying.  [...]