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January 2022

January 25, 2022

Victorious Living Does Not Always Feel Like a Win

One of the great difficulties of my adult life is reconciling the reality of success...

November 2021

November 16, 2021

Good Guys and Bad Guys

There are a lot of ways a good guy, bad guy narrative can be beneficial....

November 04, 2021

Searching for Reality: Daylight Savings

When I was a kid, the idea of daylight savings was completely bizarre to me....

November 02, 2021

Weep and Worship

Our first IVF cycle recently failed and we have received an abundance of well-wishes from...

October 2021

October 26, 2021

What Is This Really About?

I read an interesting article today about the various angles of hypocrisy (spoiler: there are...

October 21, 2021

Thoughts on Grieving

After five years of trying to conceive, we just found out our first attempt at...

September 2021

September 21, 2021

Choosing Your Base: How Foundation Affects Perspective, Attitude, Action

There is a lot to unpack in our modern world when it comes to perspective....

August 2021

August 26, 2021

More to Say

Today marks the 500th Victorious Living blog and it has me reflecting on all of...

August 24, 2021

Reminded of My Own Fragility

Sometimes it seems like I am just a house of cards, one stiff breeze away...

August 19, 2021

What Are You Setting Aside?

Recently, I was sharing with some friends of mine about how I often feel “set...

June 2021

June 29, 2021

Hypocrisy and Blind Spots

There is a lot of partisan squabbling and finger pointing going on in the world...

June 24, 2021

A Vacation From Fear and Anxiety

We recently went on a vacation to Wyoming. The timing was perfect; we flew out...

March 2021

March 23, 2021

An In-Between Life

I have been working recently on a science fiction novel–the White Whale of my writing...

March 05, 2021

How Uncertainty Invites Us Into Clarity

My friend recently introduced me to The Twilight Zone. The original ones from the early...

February 2021

February 09, 2021

How Things that Affect Me Impact The Way I Affect Things

I realize the title is a mouthful, so you have either decoded it or are...

January 2021

January 12, 2021

The Motivation of An Imagined Future

I don’t really like time travel movies. It feels like they don’t really work through...

January 05, 2021

Our Unjust System of Weights and Measures

We often talk about reality TV shows as “guilty pleasures”. I must confess there are...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

The Power and Place of Forgiveness

There is a subtle rhythm to the way we live. A pattern of ups and...

November 2020

November 19, 2020

When Assessing Reality is Harder Than it Seems

When we train leaders, we tell them that although meaningful organizations (and individuals) have to start...

November 12, 2020

Wisdom is Not an Age Thing

When I was a teenager (and also as a college student), I was hit with...

October 2020

October 13, 2020

The Complicated Journey of Accepting Reality

We wake up every morning and open our groggy eyes. Slowly and sometimes with the...

January 2020

January 21, 2020

5 Ways Your Emotions Might Be Damaging Your Relationships

We have a difficult time with out emotions. How much should we express them? When?...

January 16, 2020

How to Turn A Dream into A Vision

Martin Luther King Jr. is a celebrated American hero. In his fight for equality, he...

January 09, 2020

The Power and Danger of Manipulating Reality

There is perhaps no greater tragedy in today’s world than the loss of truth. We...

December 2019

December 27, 2019

The Day After Christmas

I am a hard person to buy presents for. Always have been. I’m not much...

November 2019

November 08, 2019

Top 3 Reasons You Fight With Your Spouse

We love them. We have committed to them. We share life with them every day....

October 2019

October 16, 2019

Life’s Not Fair…Thank God!

Every child at some point makes the claim that life is not fair. And if...

October 07, 2019

Our Fake World

Almost everything about our world is fake. We are careful to make it so. The...

September 2019

September 20, 2019

4 Ways to Establish and Maintain Confidence

Confidence is an elusive character trait. We either lack it altogether or we play at...

August 2019

August 14, 2019

The Doing Gap

The Book of James talks about a man looking at his face in the mirror...