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I am a professional reminder-er and permission granter who moonlights as an artist, author, and speaker. I enjoy Star Wars, soft t-shirts, and brand new tubes of paint. My wife Kim and I homeschool our three weird kids and live in Wisconsin, where we eat way too many cheese curds.
2025 Issue #5 👹 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from California, where I am flying home today with a smile on my face after overseeing some epic ugly cookie decorating at an educator summit yesterday...talk about scary! "NO" is a monster that frightens many of us. It's so intimidating that we'll forfeit the chance of getting something awesome because the mere chance of hearing "No" keeps us from even asking. Granted, no one likes to be turned down for a job, a date, or entry to a school we...
2025 Issue #4 🦅 "The Prepper" by Jason Kotecki. Oil on canvas.Mini*Print available until July 31. 2025 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where Mom is on a weekend retreat with her girlfriends, and Dad and the kids are eating too many doughnuts and too much pizza. When my wife told me she was pregnant with our first child, my heart filled with joy. Two seconds later, panic arrived at the party. All I could think about was how profoundly our lives were about to change and I didn't...
2025 Issue #3 🧟♂️ Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where we love marching to the beat of our own drummer, but can't escape the fact that living an unconventional life has its consequences. The whole reason Kim and I started our own business was so that we would never have to write resumés. Ok, maybe not the whole reason. But it's at least 79 percent. Kim recently took one for the team when she was required to write our resumés for an organization that wanted to hire us to...