by Shannon Popkin | Oct 16, 2011 | Mistakes, Writing
Today, I ate lunch with the most accomplished writer I’ve ever personally met. In the past thirty years, she’s written twenty-five books and over a thousand magazine articles. (Can you accomplish that and still squeeze in the traditional practices of...
by Shannon Popkin | Oct 11, 2011 | Funny, Mistakes, Parenting
Here is the note that I emailed to the other parents of Cade’s soccer team this weekend:Dear Fellow Parents,I’m sort of glad that I had to miss the boys’ game on Saturday, because I would have experienced first-hand my worst nightmare: forgetting...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 23, 2011 | Family, Mistakes
Our team is having a pretty good season. We’ve been together for quite a while now. We have practice almost every single night. In the summer we practice days, too. Most of the time, we enjoy practice, but for a while, there it was a real drag.We realized that...
by Shannon Popkin | Aug 23, 2011 | Leadership, Mistakes, Speaking, Wisdom, Women
This is the question I asked last time, and I loved all of the delightful responses. First, about non-sweaty work-out instructors: One woman said, “Seeing a skinny, toned person working out is believable because you DO get skinny and toned if you work out…” But...
by Shannon Popkin | Jul 20, 2011 | Communication, Kids' Perspective, Mistakes
I brought my friend’s little boy, Matthew, to the bathroom while his mom was occupied. After I got him settled on the potty, he said, “I need piy-cee.”I said, “You need a potty seat?”He said, “No. I need piy-cee.”I said,...
by Shannon Popkin | Jul 7, 2011 | Jesus, Mistakes, Parenting
I noticed that one of my kids, in particular, has been very defensive. I ask him to pick up his socks and he says, “I’m sorry, all right?!!” I tell him he can’t whack his brother, and he says, “Fine, then! I wasn’t even hurting...