Reading to your children will change their lives

This is my column in today’s Greenville News.  Read to your kids! http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20130303/OPINION/303030006/Reading-your-children-will-change-their-lives?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|s I love bedtime.  As a husband and father, it’s just a time of absolute wonder.  Life winds down in the evenings.  The sun sets, the children slow … Continue reading

When leading is following; my latest EM News column.

Here is my latest column in Emergency Medicine News.  I hope you enjoy it! http://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2013/02000/Second_Opinion__When_Leading_is_Following.8.aspx My wife just built a pergola in our yard.  Mind you, a pergola is a thing I never knew existed until it was pointed out … Continue reading

Sending a son out into the world…

This is my column in today’s Greenville News.  Merry Christmas! http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20121223/OPINION/312230016/Ed-Leap-Sending-son-into-world-can-painful?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|p Today is the 18th birthday of our my first-born son, Samuel.  It’s a shocking thing, to see the transformation.  18 years ago he was new to the world, tiny, … Continue reading

Get rid of useless stuff this Thanksgiving…my Greenville News column for this week

This is my column in today’s Greenville news, on the topic of time wasted and time well used. http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20121118/OPINION/311180007/Get-rid-useless-stuff-Thanksgiving?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|p I sometimes sit and think about the things that have wasted my time.  It’s a long list, and  probably would exceed … Continue reading

Moral law as a ‘safety warning.’ A ‘devotion for doctors…and others.’

These days, the word sin is considered kind of ‘sinful.’  The secular world finds it entirely offensive, since they consider every human behavior to be natural and therefore appropriate.  The religious world, ever more sensitive to offending anyone these days, often veers away from … Continue reading

Make college relevant, not a resort vacation (my column in the Greenville News)

A big thanks to Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit for the link! This is my column in today’s Greenville News.  A topic I’m passionate about, in no small part thanks to hearing Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit.com, speak on it at Clemson University.  … Continue reading

Season’s transitions can make parents worry…(or, ‘There goes my heart, off to school!)

Here is my column in yesterday’s Greenville News, concerning the transitions of our children’s lives, and the anxiety it those changes provoke in all of us, their crazy parents. http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20120826/OPINION/308260009/Ed-Leap-Season-transitions-can-make-parents-worry?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|s&nclick_check=1 Off they go this week! Wee children to day-care, pre-school … Continue reading