#big check

Big Chest Workout with Resistance Band

This workout will help you build big and strong pectoral muscles using various strength exercises. Repeat this circuit 3-5 times.

Dear child(ren),

Today was a long and wonderful day. This morning, we celebrated your upcoming arrival with family and friends with a breakfast shower. We got lots of gifts and we talked a lot about you. People want to know your name, but I’ve convinced your mother we should keep it to ourselves, lest we tell someone what it is and they tell us we how much they dislike it. And then we will be forced to dislike them. Nobody wants that.

And then tonight, the Argenta Reading Series named a winner of its high school writing contest. Over the last month or so, I narrowed down over 50 entries to four finalists, and a panel of judges made up of Author Kevin Brockmeier, Laman Library Director Crystal Gates, and Arkansas Times Arts & Culture Editor Stephanie Smittle selected a winner: Haley McDaniel of Valley View High School. The readings were good. So good, in fact, that Crystal and the Laman Library decided to fund a $500 scholarship to each of the three other finalists. I was completely surprised by it. It made all the effort worth it.

Between the shower and the scholarships, I was reminded today of how much generosity and goodness there is in my world.

Dad

Big Check (MM #4261)

Haribo, the company that makes the famed gummy bears, is in the news, and this has nothing to do with their Goldbears. The story involves a big check and a lack of gratitude. And it’s also making people ask what’s the point of being a good Samaritan. And as we all know, there are two sides to every story…