Called Into the 21st Century
I got my first cell phone in late 2001, for use in emergencies. It’s capabilities: making phone calls. But oh, how times changed, as what happened just five years later shows. I just wanted to […]
Tag: kids
That’s a House Of a Different Color
I recently stumbled across a blog I wrote in 2006 (!), and I thought I’d reprint it to show how my summers haven’t gotten all that worse in recent years: They were always worse. […]
Kids, Ask Me About Easter – By Reverend Tornquist
[Note from the staff at VFTB: This week, we are privileged to feature another LIVE CHAT with noted children’s religious scholar, Reverend Norman Tornquist, host of the popular webcast, “Kids, Ask Me About God”. Tornquist […]
Meet Barbara Hammond Author of daddy duJour
daddy duJour is a book about survival in many ways. Barbara became the primary caregiver of her younger brothers at an early age. There was a revolving door of men in her mother’s life. Some […]
‘What are you doing, Alexa?’
The siren-loud noise of indie pop at 5 in the morning on a Saturday was not what I wanted at 5 in the morning on Saturday. My 15-year-old son tends to sleep through his alarm, […]
Brian Kiley’s Twitter Comedy
To enjoy more of Brian’s humor and storytelling, check out his debut novel The Astounding Misadventures of Rory Collins. Available on Amazon in paperback and eBook. […]
Teaching your teen is not impossible
My 15-year-old no longer has patience—not with inconvenience, not with failure and not with learning, which is often the takeaway in times of inconvenience and failure . . . if you have patience. It seems […]
Getting older leads to sleepless night
I was going to bed late, had to get up early for work—probably should’ve skipped that cup of coffee—and I was getting old. Wow, my son turned 15! I am old. I lay in bed […]