Memoir Missive: Boundary-Making

A fight over bedrails taught us to stay unified.

Jan 12 • Hans Googer and Courtney Googer

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Evals and Our Ever-Present Goalpost Moving

Why are we afraid to say "That didn't work"?

Jan 5 • Hans Googer

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December 2025

Our 2025 Retrospective

What we send to several hundred of our closest friends.

Dec 29, 2025 • Hans Googer and Courtney Googer

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Power Distance and the Incarnation

How Christmas challenges every common understanding of authority

Dec 22, 2025 • Hans Googer

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Sometimes We'd Be Better Saying Less

What My Worst Christmas Taught Me About Parenting

Dec 15, 2025 • Hans Googer

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My 2025 Anchor Habits

What kept me going when I didn't want to

Dec 8, 2025 • Hans Googer

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Turn Down the Heat

Not everything requires securing the moral high ground.

Dec 1, 2025 • Hans Googer

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November 2025

Give it Time, It Always Works

Small actions, consistently maintained, build oceans of trust

Nov 24, 2025 • Hans Googer

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Lightweight Lies

Self-justifying dishonesty gets us nowhere.

Nov 17, 2025 • Hans Googer

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Poured Out, Not Burned Out: A Pastor's Perspective

The same actions yield different results when we consider the source.

Nov 10, 2025 • Hans Googer

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I Want You Healthy, Just Not Right Now

When you get better, it means I have to change, too.

Nov 3, 2025 • Hans Googer

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October 2025

Knock Off the Ice

How crab fishermen teach us lessons about our relationships.

Oct 27, 2025 • Hans Googer

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