Like Jack Whinery

Meet the Whinery family: Jack, Edith, and their five children, Laura, Velva Mae, Wanda, AJ, and Lawrence. This photo was taken in 1940, when they were homesteading in Pie Town, NM. Jack was… Read More →

Tales from the Skipped: Skipper Goggans

*This is second in a series of posts from Andrew Goggans. When God brought me my wife, Melanie, He answered my decade long prayer that He would bring me the right girl, at… Read More →

Holistic Shmolistic

Skipper Armstrong here. I’m writing to provide a little tension about what some of the boys wrote yesterday. Not all that stuff about me being disconnected and unconcerned — that’s what I expect… Read More →

“Let’s Take a Look at You” — Dr. Everydoctor

As a rule, Skipper Armstrong, the superintendent here at the Broom Factory, always sits on our personal evaluations. The reason, he says, is that a disconnected outsider gives a more objective assessment of… Read More →

Skipper Trick #5: Examine the Fight, and Never Give Up

This is first in a series of posts from Skipper Goggans. Be on the lookout for his Tales from the Skipped for bio-data. Being a skipper is a daunting task.  I’m sure there… Read More →

Tales from the Skipped: Rock Star Bob

There’s a skipper in Michigan whose nickname is Rock Star Bob, and he deserves it. Bob married his high-school sweetheart a couple years ago, and they’re expecting their first. Good on ‘em! But… Read More →

Friend, You Must Sprint.

Skipper Parris has been looking pretty trim lately, and when Skipper Armstrong called him into the superintendent’s office to explain himself, Parris attributed his improvement in physique to sprinting. The discussion went something… Read More →

“Archaic” Ain’t An Insult

You hear it all the time. “The pope’s views,” “the idea of chivalry,” and “traditional” anything…they’re so archaic. Running a blog based on the idea that men of the past have much to… Read More →

Handle It Like Herriot

All Creatures Great and Small may be the most charming book in the English language (also, a story for skippers if ever there was one). Alfred Wight, the man behind the pen-name James… Read More →

Test Your Limits

A life fully lived—a flourishing, impressive, skipper kind of life—is expansive in experiences, abundant in anecdotes, and proliferate with possibility. And that’s just the alliterate stuff. Getting to that kind of life while… Read More →

Saying “Peace, Peace” When There Is No Peace

It’d been months since “The Great Toddler Hike,” and this session of Mama’s-Got-A-Wedding-To-Photograph-Today started with my now 2-year-old son and I waving out the kitchen window as my wife backed out of the… Read More →