OK, OOOOKAY! It's the new year.

Time to try this again. Returning to active blogging again. It's been a year since made the same effort. Failed. BUT, my son in law, Matt, and I (the "social work cowboy" as a Marriage and Family Therapist and Equine Director at a residential adolescent ranch in Utah) are leaning hard in to the book we've had on our hearts and our minds for six years or so. Generational Fathering is the topic, perhaps the title, and extracts years of "co-fathering" the five grandwonderchildren we loaned our daughter, Cari.

For my New Year resolution, probably the only one I'll keep, is to keep this personal blog active as relates to family, personal stories, life and spiritual insights. Another blog will be (probably) under GenerationalFathering.com as a platform to discover stories, create active and possibly testy exchanges on the role of fathers, the value of deliberately overlapping generations to balance out the fathering equation and to better prepare our children for the tumultuous world they face that we seem unable to change through politics and complaints. So-doing will take our heritage, apply it to the parenting challenge today, and lay a path to future generations to be watermark legacies who will Walk With God and touch the world and grow the Kingdom of God.

This serious-sounding commitment is now out there. I intend to launch the new blog in the third week of January.