Hi, I'm Mike.I believe the most important conversation you'll have this week is the one you have with yourself.Every Sunday, I send Sunday Morning Coffee—one honest story, one reflection, and one question worth carrying into your week. Along the way, we explore emotional honesty, relationships, parenting, personal growth, resilience, and finding the courage to be yourself. Pull up a chair. The coffee's on.
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Coffee ready?Is the coffee ready, and also, are you coffee ready? Why not! Just had Talley's 504 meeting with the school on Wednesday. Making some accommodations to add for STAR testing and possibly for PE class. Also, Talley is of course, everybody's favorite little girl. Also, every day big brother Miles holds her hand going up and down the entrance ramp cause he's a good big brother! Along with all the challenges also come great moments of joy and love. Our youngest was born 15 weeks premature, and there have been many challenges along the way. From 89 days in the NICU to continuous physical therapies and many things in between. Every bump feels world ending, but also she's the best person I know and I love every moment with her. Gotta keep it all in perspective, friends, and take it all together. Sometimes you don't have any answer to, "How are you doing?" except to say, "I'm fine." Here's the thing about "I'm fine": it's not usually a lie, exactly. It's a placeholder, because naming the real thing takes longer than you've got standing in the kitchen at 7am with three kids yelling about socks. So you say fine, and you move on, and the actual thing just… stays. Not gone. Just unsaid. I built something this week for exactly that moment — when you know something's off but you haven't actually sat down and looked at it. It's called the Quick Site Survey: ten honest questions, about ten minutes, free. Not therapy, not a fix. Just a place to put the real answer instead of "fine." That's the whole thing this week: you don't have to solve it. You just have to stop calling it fine. Keep the coffee hot. Mike P.S. If ten minutes tells you something real and you want to go deeper, there's a full version now too — the Honest Home: Site Survey Workbook, $9.99. |
Mike Kerklin
Hi, I'm Mike.I believe the most important conversation you'll have this week is the one you have with yourself.Every Sunday, I send Sunday Morning Coffee—one honest story, one reflection, and one question worth carrying into your week. Along the way, we explore emotional honesty, relationships, parenting, personal growth, resilience, and finding the courage to be yourself. Pull up a chair. The coffee's on.
Coffee ready? I'm back home after a week away with the family. We spent the week on a Disney cruise we'd been planning for more than two years. Two years of deposits, reservations, schedules, anticipation, and making sure everything was in place. And now we're home. The suitcases need unpacking. The laundry has apparently reproduced while we were gone. The inbox is waiting, and Monday is standing outside the front door like a process server. Snap back to reality. Ope, there goes gravity. Last...
Coffee ready? I'm drinking mine in Florida this morning. We flew down yesterday, and tomorrow my family and I get on a Disney cruise. Today, we've given ourselves a beach day in Ft. Lauderdale. Life's not so short that you have to hurry. Life is actually long, and you should live as much of it as you can. Here's the part that surprises people: we booked this trip more than two years ago. Two years. Paying deposits on a week that's still two calendars away can feel a little silly. Planning a...
Coffee ready? Hey everybody. I've been thinking about course corrections this week. I've been doing some course correcting myself in fact. Remember all the shows where some guy didn't want to ask for directions, and ended up lost? I'm good with a little pride, but I also don't like wasting a bunch of time and gas. Sometimes you really don't know how lost you are, and sometimes you just don't want to look and find out. Usually that is me and my bank account after a trip to the casino. Ross...