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Empowering Gabby

In our home, we’re out to save and protect the river otters.  Well, at least one person in our home has decided to.  That person would be my daughter, Gabriella. Gabriella is in 5th grade and will be 10-years old next week.  I call her “Gaphrodite” just to mess with her, especially when she’s wearing one of her toga-like, long,…

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5 Summer Reading Books I Pay My Kids to Read

Yeah, I’m one of those parents.  The kind that actually pays his kids to fill their minds with good stuff.  I pay my kids to read personal development books.  Call me weird.  I’ve seen normal out there and believe me – we consider “weird” to be a compliment around our house. I started this a few years back with the…

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Win Like West

I need to introduce you to a really cool kid I know.  Well, at sixteen years old, he’s hardly a kid anymore – much more like a young man headed into adulthood. I first got to know Westley Burrington when he was about nine or ten years old.  For those of you who have heard my story, you may remember…

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Failure, Hope and Second Chances

A couple of weeks ago my buddy Dave asked my wife Gina and I to participate in a marriage podcast.  Not only is Dave a great friend, but the podcast that One Flesh Awakening produces contains some really great stuff.  We fully agreed to be a part of the process. Going through the podcast archives, it’s fascinating to see how…

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Sometimes You Just Gotta Roll With The Marshmallows

We’re all creatures of habit.  Think about it.  Most of us sat at the same lunch table in high school.  We park in the same general area in the office parking lot.  In fact, if you think about it, you most likely use the same restroom stall at work as well.  We sit in the same section in church on…

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Adopting the “I Can” Mindset

Editor’s Note:  We are honored today to feature a guest post from a very gifted writer and blogger, Rebekah Canonico.  Rebekah, a member of the Integress Solutions Tribe, wrote this after noticing a posting on our Facebook page that said, “Success comes in CAN’S, not CAN’TS.”  I have a three-year-old son named Caleb. He is bright, funny, passionate, and quite charming….

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