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Shift Your Perspective for a Happier Life Kicks & GigglesObservations

Shift Your Perspective for a Happier Life

I was reading through my journal and found this excerpt from 2014. was super ornery today about eating her beans and polenta. I mean really ornery, whining, pushing it away, “no, no, no, I don’t like Polenta. I don’t like beanies.” Until mentioned making the polenta into a little man, and then I said we could make a polenta dog, and then she suggested a polenta dragon. So we cut up the polenta and made it into a man and a dragon and she immediately downed her beans like they were the most delicious thing in the world, especially when…
March 11, 2026
Meeting Minutes Kicks & Giggles

Meeting Minutes

This was a fun joke I sent out to my colleagues after our staff meeting to see if anyone actually bothered to read the minutes. The idea came to me when someone in another meeting I attended made a sassy comment about senior leadership and jokingly said to the administrative assistant, "don't put that in the meeting minutes". I thought, hmm, what if I created a set of meeting minutes that only had notes that shouldn't be included in the meeting minutes. Anyway, I had a fun time writing it and I hope you have a fun time reading it.…
June 13, 2024
On Being a Dad Expert Kicks & GigglesObservationsPhilosophy

On Being a Dad Expert

As a parent of curious children you have to be pretty much an expert in everything. “Dad, when was Dr. Seuss born?” “Dad, George Washington like cake?” “Dad, do Walruses dream?” “Dad, how do you build an airplane?” And they ask with such complete and utter confidence that you will know the answer to every question that pops into their minds that somehow the answers just seem to come.
March 2, 2024