Posts by Mark Goodson

On Teaching

Instead of handing them a map to the text, I have to teach them how to navigate.

Green Clip-On

Just another day in the life.

More than more

More is not always better. Less is not always worse. Tomorrow never comes. And yesterday never leaves.

Proof

It is calming to think that I am not responsible for the most important thing in their lives, for their greatest interest in life is discovering something I can’t give them.

Across the blissful threshold

If you’ve fathered kids across the blissful threshold, there is no mistaking it. And while crossing it is not an exact event, the awareness of existing on the other side of it is precise and unmistakable.

Reap

I feel the need to reap what the last decade has sown.

Crisis

I would do anything to keep what I have now: the love of family, a deep sense of gratitude, a challenging and creative profession.

Changes

I don’t want to spend another decade worried about what I can provide for my family in the future. Give them your full attention now and the future will be decidedly good.

Nurturing Your Nature

I am feeling, in this my 39th year, exceptionally free from the need to prove anything to anyone.

Greatness

Greatness likely means to live on in the lives of others.

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