Writer, dad, person with feelings. Providing parenting updates from the field.
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The attention and detail required to sneak anything nutritional into my child's diet makes it feel very similar to poisoning a king.
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Every Christmas Eve, I think about George Bailey.
He dreamed of escaping Bedford Falls—of shaking off the dust of a small town, building skyscrapers, exploring the world. Instead, he stayed. He ran the Building & Loan his father left behind. He sacrificed his college money, his honeymoon savings, his chance to see the world, over and over, because people needed him.
By the time the crisis hits, George feels like a failure. His life looks like one long series of missed opportunities, thwarted ambitions, and quiet resentments. He stands on the bridge, convinced the world would be better without him.
Then Clarence shows him the truth: a Bedford Falls without George Bailey is a darker, meaner, hollowed-out place. The people he quietly helped, the small acts of integrity he performed without recognition, the risks he took to protect others—those weren’t detours. They were the substance of his life.
The film’s deepest insight isn’t just that “no man is a failure who has friends.” It’s that real impact is almost always invisible in the moment. The lives you steady, the small kindnesses you extend, the responsibilities you shoulder when no one else will—these things ripple outward in ways you may never see.
A strong sense of purpose doesn’t erase pain; it transforms it. It doesn’t merely explain why hard things happened. It asks: What are you now responsible for because they happened?
Faith, at its best, does the same. It doesn’t promise that everything was “meant to be” in order to make suffering palatable. It invites you to look at what has been entrusted to you in light of what you’ve endured.
George’s story reminds us that meaning is rarely found in the grand escape, but in the faithful presence. The dreams we surrender don’t always vanish—they often become the raw material for something more enduring than we imagined.
If you’re carrying the weight of roads not taken, of dreams deferred, of a life that feels smaller than you once hoped—watch It’s a Wonderful Life again tonight. Not as nostalgia, but as revelation.
You may not see the full difference you’ve made yet.
But it’s there.
And it matters more than you know.
Merry Christmas, friends.
🎄🇨🇽🎅🦌☃️⛪️✝️❤️
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You know how two people far away can look up at the same moon and feel close?
My family does that every Thanksgiving except we're watching the Lions lose.
Every college football play:
Quarterback crazy runs around.
A bunch of people chase after him.
The last second the quarterback slides.
A defender can't instantly phase out from physical reality. The two players make contact.
"The previous play is under review for targeting"
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Having children will not make your life cleaner, easier, or simpler.
But it will make it better, though not in the simple ways that are easy to categorize, but in the deeper ways that are hard to explain. Having kids will, in some sense, blow up your little single life, and it will be the best thing that happens to you.
But, you don't know that beforehand and this is why there is a fascinating selection happening right now. If you are wanting to have the easiest life possible, you will not have kids. This is also why trying to increase the birthrate by way of money or houses or increased ease will fail. It misses human nature in abundance.
Once people have a perfectly clean little house they don't want to fill it with grubby hands. They want to protect it. So they decide not to fill it with children and instead something different.
If you choose to have kids you are choosing a less clean, less easy, less simple life in favor of something "else." Some kind of inner urge pushes you toward it and it is worth more than the perfection. What that something else is is hard to categorize, but it's basically the most vital thing you can do in 2025.
For every 100 billion in new debt a member of Congress should be deported.
Selection would take place on pay per view via lottery.
Money from event would go to service debt.
Also...for every trillion a Senator would have to fight Logan Paul...
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Did you know the wife’s Rolex in Die Hard is the most important symbol in the film?
She receives the Rolex as recognition for her corporate work away from her husband. Her cocaine boss tells her to flaunt the Rolex to her husband the cop. She won’t because she’s embarrassed by it (she’s redeemable).
At the end, Hans Gruber is holding on to her wrist by means of her new Rolex. He’s pulling her to her death and pointing a gun at her. The husband sees this and unlatches the Rolex causing Hans to fall to his death. Watch carefully: BOTH the Rolex and Hans fall.
John McClane literally saves his wife’s life by unshackling her wrist from her corporate slave wage job and restores her as his wife.
Very based. A family is reunited on Christmas. So yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
Ad or not, this is a great piece of work.
Volvo posted a 3 min and 46 second ad on Instagram, shot by Hoyte Van Hoytema, the cinematographer of Interstellar and Oppenheimer.
It goes against every single rule you can think about as a social lead. Length. Format. Over-produced.
Every comment under the ad said it immediately put Volvo in their consideration set. It's fucking fantastic.
In case you missed it, #PaulTyson was just a more buffering version of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Lily Tang is the vibe.
🙌Lily Tang tells Maggie Swamp to go back to her 2 million dollar mansion! 😂🤣👏#NH VOTE FOR @Lily4Liberty 🙌🇺🇸
