I like numbers.  They make sense to me.  With a background in business, numbers are critical to my work, and often I find you can’t get at the real story without having a look at the data.  But unfortunately, the numbers can’t tell us everything.  Consider a very simple question that comes into the discussion […]

In our family of six, each person’s personality is so different from any other.  So it shouldn’t have come to a surprise that when Ben and I finally told our kiddos about Ireland, each of them had a different reaction.  One morning at breakfast this past fall, we told the kids we had something exciting […]