Category: Family

#Cousins March 14

For March 2024 several of us will be participating in the “30-Day Shout-Out Coach4aday Challenge”. Today the recipient is my COUSINS. First cousins are a great part of any family dynamic. In some ways...

#Thanksgiving November 24

Coach4aday is on vacation. Today’s contribution comes from the archives of 3,000 previously published blog posts. Today’s post was published on November 30, 2019, and its topic was photos. Holiday Photos Last Saturday I...

#Marriage June 8

Today my wife and I celebrate forty-one years of MARRIAGE We have come a long way in 41 years. Here is the two of us walking out of the church as a married couple...

#Mom May 29

One of the best leaders I know is Heather Hirt Miller and she just lost her MOM Ginger Hirt this week. Heather is the Director of Children and Youth Ministries at First Presbyterian Church...

#Cousins December 22

Last week I finished a year long project to create a Family Tree Book for the descendants of my mom’s parents Henry Charles and Bridget Bambrick Lynch (my grandparents). I mailed this booklet off...

#Consanguinity December 7

I had two personal projects collide with each other last week. First I am working on a Family Tree for my siblings and many cousins. The second project was to continue my 30 Day Vocabulary...

#Camp September 2

Our daughter and son-in-law got to take a well deserved trip to the mountains of North Carolina last week. They were gone for four days and we got to have our granddaughter Bryleigh with...

#Sunday June 28

As a child growing up in Northern NJ my family ate dinner together every evening. Even with that regularity there was something predictable and wonderful about SUNDAY family dinners. One of my friends lamented...

#Dads June 21

This post originally appeared on June 21, 2020, but it was updated on June 18,2023. Today on Father’s Day I reflected on all I have learned from my DAD and many other men who...

#Anniversary June 8

Today my wife and I have been married 40 years. It is an ANNIVERSARY milestone that we thought we could celebrate with travel. The pandemic took that option away from us. We pray and...