Author: Ben Meredith

The line between asking for money too often and not asking enough is a lot like my wife’s internal thermostat and emotional state during pregnancy. There is a fine, moving line between sweating and freezing, and between crying and laughing.

(Sidenote to the single males: This next paragraph might sound like I’m just trying to exaggerate to make things funnier. In reality, I’m scaling back the details so as to not get in trouble with my wife. No, really.) Continue reading “About Being Told We Solicit Too Much.”

We paid it off before it even got put on a payment plan.

Of all the things I thought I’d write about my son’s surgery at four months old where they sawed off the back of his head, flipped it over and put it back on, that didn’t even make my top 10, pre-surgery. Continue reading “Thankful Thursday: Surgery.”

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There’s at least one situation that trumps people not being home for their appointment. And that’s people being home, and having forgotten about the appointment and invited friends for dinner. Continue reading “About Crashing your Family Get-Together.”