by Jim Chaput | Apr 22, 2019 | Jim's Blog
A special edition of the blog today, co-written with my lovely wife Trish. It is hard to believe so much time has passed, but today is our 19th wedding anniversary. Together for more than seven years before we got married, we have been a couple for more than half our...
by Jim Chaput | Apr 21, 2019 | Jim's Blog
I was at a family barbecue a while back and someone asked my carpenter friend for a rough idea on how much he would charge to build a deck with an unusual shape to accommodate a hot tub. My friend took a look at the area and tub and said, “I would need to calculate a...
by Jim Chaput | Apr 20, 2019 | Jim's Blog
What works for you might not work for me. If I do everything you do, I will probably get a different result – maybe better, maybe worse. It can be frustrating when you follow what someone else does to get great results, but it does not work for you. As the...
by Jim Chaput | Apr 19, 2019 | Jim's Blog
Trish and I have participated in at least five different diet or lifestyle challenges: 30-day vegetarian (self-imposed as an experiment) Whole Life Paleo 21-day sugar detox 21-day elimination (admittedly, I only did 10 days) Some of these have resulted in long-term...
by Jim Chaput | Apr 18, 2019 | Jim's Blog
The longer you are in a relationship, the easier it is to project history onto what the other person says. It can be hard to take things at face value. Take a simple question such as, “What are you doing this weekend?” In a casual relationship, you probably just...
by Jim Chaput | Apr 17, 2019 | Jim's Blog
Apparently, April 2019 is the month of dentistry in our household. We each had issues, some of which might have been avoidable. Roli needed a cleaning badly and had to have a tooth pulled. We knew he needed a cleaning for a while, but we waited until our budget could...
