Daniel
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Joshua, Jesus, and Red Panda
As I write this, my son Joshua is 101 days old. I’ve been thinking a lot about how my life has changed in the past 100 days and about Red Panda. You see, after spending 8 years in the NBA, there are a couple of universal truths that you realize cannot be questioned:
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Our Seven Minute Miracle
The room was filling with chaos but time slowed down when I saw the nurse raise her foot and disengage the brake on my wife’s hospital bed. So began the hardest seven minutes of my life. Let me back up.
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Top 10 Mistakes Husbands Make with a Pregnant Wife
As my wife enters the final days of her pregnancy, I thought it might be helpful to give you a list of the top 10 mistakes guys I made this past summer. 10) Being cliche We’ve all seen movies or tv shows where the husband begrudgingly or awkwardly learns about the wonders of the…
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Living Off the Edge
Somehow I guess my wife and I decided one wedding and three new jobs in 2014 wasn’t quite enough. We decided to add to the chaos by putting my house up for sale. I swear it seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Mississippi, Mario, and Me
My first official business trip was to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in August of 2000. At 21 years old, I felt like a young professional jetting into New Orleans and meeting a client a short drive across the Mississippi State Line. I barely remember the reason for the trip, but I did learn something…
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How To Build a Wall
When I moved to Arizona in 2007, one of the major contrasts from Texas I noticed was efficient highway construction. When one of the major highways needed work, they’d schedule it for overnight on a Saturday and crews would have all the work done and the cones collected by the next morning. The only sign…
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Spiritual Yardwork
A day ago I realized I have two Palo Verde trees in my front yard when I met my neighbor Joel. Joel has an immaculately manicured desert landscape lawn and mercifully stopped by to talk with me when he saw me at work in the jungle that my property had become. In the nicest way…
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National Lampoons and God
I’m in love. I’m proud of my work. I’m surrounded by great friends. And I’m pissed off.
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My Epic Fail
There is a special kind of shame that only grown-up humans are capable of feeling. It’s the kind of shame you feel when you realize you’re singing along to Justin Bieber song. I felt this kind of shame today when I was moved by something said by a personal trainer on an infomercial as I was…
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The Proposal (God is Good)
Once upon a time many years ago I decided I wanted to marry Brenna Temple; I just took a long time to ask. Here is the story of how we got engaged… I decided our engagement would take place on December 12th (12/12) because the number 12 is special in our relationship. In the early…