Old Man Oakland

During my 4+ years as a Young Life leader, I've met a few people that have thought I was younger or older than I was at the time.  My freshman year in college, some high school kids thought I was the father of small child I was walking around with (who happened to be Luke Granger).  I've also been mistaken as either a junior or senior in high school several times.  And then just this past year, a sophomore in high school.  And now, just this past Sunday, this conversation happened with a Red Barons coach of one of our younger teams as we watched the 8th grade team play:

Coach: So do you have a boy out there playing right now?

Me: Umm no...I just graduated from Michigan State.

Old enough to be the father of a 13 year old?  I've never been more honored.

Wow

The new MacBook

What Teachers Make

First things first: Shan and I tried this pumpkin seed recipe this weekend and they turned out GREAT.  Highly recommended.  

During pre-game at our football game Sunday, I was asking one of our players about his weekend.  In typical  8th grade fashion, most of his answers were pretty vague, so I kept asking more questions to really figure out what was going on.  He then said, "Dude, you're just like Tom Brokaw."

What caught me off guard was not his attempt at mocking me, but that he even knows who Tom Brokaw is.  So I asked how he knows about him.  His reply:

"You ever watch South Park?"

Me: "That's how you know about him?"

TV loving 8th grade boy: "Yeah, South Park's taught me most of the stuff I know."

Uh oh.

It was surprising to hear this, but I suppose I shouldn't be all that shocked.  TV offers a lot of information, which is awesome as long as its true.  Which I also suppose is not always the case.  So for all my friends that are teachers or will be teachers, you've got your hands full.  Thank you fighting the every day battle to teach kids.  You make a difference every day.