A Little Small Talk.

Ben and Jacqueline

I’m Ben. My wife’s name is Jacqueline, and her friends call her Jacq. We both work in tech, remotely from our shared home office.

I’m the Director Of Customer Service and Support for several brands in the WordPress Space over at StellarWP.com, and Jacqueline is the Operations Manager for WPSessions.

We also have a few side hustles – WP Steward, Greenwood DJ, and Jacqueline’s blog on living life with T1 Diabetes, Sweetly Diabetic.

We’re parents of three boys, and you can likely find us chasing one of them to some sporting event these days. This site is where we like to verbally process life. If you dig back far enough here, you’ll find articles written from our time on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ, and various other stages of life.

Thanks for stopping by and checking us out. We’re glad you’re here.

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March 11, 2025March 11, 2025

Kelly Flagg’s Head-Tap Blunder: A Case Study in Escalation

I belong to a couple of online “communities” by virtue of the things I post about: some weird diet groups (not on the bingo card this time last year, but here we are), some tech support/techie groups, and UNC athletics fandoms. For those not in the latter group, UNC played Duke (I have a hard …

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March 9, 2025March 9, 2025

More Than Just Playing Time: Lessons from the Bench

My eighth grader is on the JV baseball team this year, and like many young athletes, he’s spending more time on the bench than he’d like. Our small school has enough talented players to fill three teams, and while I’m incredibly proud of him for making the JV team in 8th grade, it’s tough watching …

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February 7, 2025February 7, 2025

Chasing My Son, Finding Myself: A Sprint to Self-Discovery

Last night (February 6, 2025), leaving the Middle School basketball game, I lost for the first time in a footrace with one of my children, in a typical boy-parent “I’ll race you to the car” moment. It was bound to happen: at nearly 17 years old, he’s working out every day and currently outweighs me …

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