For readers who know me only from my novel and other writing, there’s another side of my life: I run an information technology firm that helps multibillion-dollar organizations create better software.

If you’ve ever fought with a website that wouldn’t work or a mobile app that made you want to hurl your phone across the

Failure can be a scary thing. Most of us sense it lurking at the edge of...

Continued from Raising Fools - Part 1

I’m lying with my upper back flat while the rest of me twists to the...

We have three boys, all with different personalities yet similar in so many ways. When the oldest was eleven or so, I’d often walk into the family room to find him…

Summer always reminds me of childhood when I’d play outside with friends until dusk and beyond. Many evenings, when the light faded, the soft glow of fireflies pulled us from…

Whenever I lift my eyes toward the sky, my mood improves. I noticed this a long time ago and always assumed my fondness of the sky triggered it, my inner kid spellbound by…

Susan and I spent a recent Saturday cleaning out a few closets in dire need of organizing. One of the closets was in the…

When did most of us stop believing in magic? Was it the same time we stopped discovering castles and dolphins in the clouds? Did we come to the conclusion on our own, or was it blurted by a spiteful person, or perhaps worse…

There’s no substitute for the school of life. Each of us is enrolled, like it or not. But we should like it. It’s the finest education money can’t buy…

When a caterpillar emerges from a chrysalis, does it know it has become a butterfly capable of flight, or does it make a leap of faith from the empty husk? I not sure we’ll ever learn the answer, but…

I’ve been thinking about the weather lately. This weekend, I’ll fly my plane to Atlanta to join my…