Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships

How to raise sons who respect women:
Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.

It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.