Real Stuff My Dad Says 58: Blessed Child
My mom and dad raised me in a very stereotypical 1970’s-80’s nondenominational American Christian home. Now, in the 70’s and early 80’s, it was very common to see evangelical pamphlets…
Real Stuff My Dad Says 57: Heaven Is For Real
It’s been said that this is the year of faith-based entertainment with movies such as Son of God, Noah, God is Not Dead, Left Behind, Exodus and Mary, Mother of…
Real Stuff My Dad Says 56: Get Off My Lawn!
When I was a boy, I clearly remember playing badminton with my dad in our little backyard, behind our mobile home in Rancho Cucamonga. In the middle of our fun…
Real Stuff My Dad Says 55: New Info
In the summer of 1998, all of America was stricken with baseball fever. America’s favorite pastime was being ushered back into the forefront of the nation’s consciousness by two gargantuan…
Real Stuff My Dad Says 54: Are You Supernaturally Extraordinary?
Back in the ‘90’s and early 2000’s, the television show Touched By An Angel featured fictitious angels that would interact with people’s lives and then leave those people with important…
Real Stuff My Dad Says 53: Four in the Morning Memories
“…It’s four in the morning, I’m lying in bed A tape of my failures playing inside my head It’s heartaches and hard knocks and things I don’t know I listen…
Real Stuff My Dad Says 52: Ripples from a Pebble
When I was a boy, my dad and I would sit in front of the TV and watch the show Kung Fu starring David Carradine. In each episode, Carradine’s Kwai…
Real Stuff My Dad Says 51: Receiving Criticism
Dad and I are horrible golfers. I mean terrible. The words “stupendously dreadful” don’t come close to describing the damage we do to a golf course and a scorecard any…
Real Stuff My Dad Says 50: C.S.I. Relationships
Just like a perpetrator in a crime scene, we leave our “finger prints” behind in nearly everything we do – including in our relationships. And, just as C.S.I. detectives attempt…
Real Stuff My Dad Says 49: Safe Families
A word of warning: when you become someone who gives of themselves, you will find opportunities to give to people who REALLY need it. My dad has raised me to…