It has been so long since I have written on here. Do know that I think about writing on a semi-regular basis but always find myself consumed in the work of the day or merely going to a creek and stomping with my family.  A brief update since my last entry, I am now the…

Growing up I wasn’t a terrible child, but on more than one occasion I had cause to need to be disciplined. This amounted to my father saying his now infamous words, “This is going to hurt me more than it is going to hurt you,” a few swats on my butt and guidance and direction…

The last seven weeks were the best seven weeks of my life. Getting to spend time Biscuit every day and just learn alongside her was so amazing. During that time we learned that the 30-min rule for swimming after eating also applies to playing with dad, or there will surely be some spitting up. How to blow…

A GOOD REST IS HALF THE JOB One thing about being a DAD that is so true is that rest is IMPORTANT! It is one of the things that will be the first to go as you adjust to your new world as a father. But as they say in the rom-com’s, absence makes the heart…

I am what I am because of the MEN (and women but the title would have looked goofy with a slash in it) who have helped shape me and guided me to be my best self. These individuals have been both older and younger, male and female, but they all have one thing in common……

In over a decade of leadership in higher education, I have had the pleasure of working with and for many wonderful individuals that have all maintained a student first approach to their work. While this student first approach is the foundation that makes for a good employee in higher education, the GREAT employees and co-workers…

Now that March is upon us let the Madness begin! Though I believe it is fair to say, it has been a little mad in the Barron household the last six weeks as we adjust to being parents for the first time. No one can adequately prepare you for just how many diapers you will…

Today is the first official day of the DADbatical! For the next 8 weeks, I will be hanging out with my wonderful new Biscuit, trying not to do more damage than good. After more than a decade of working in higher education, and working in general for nearly the last 20 years, this will be my…

The last week has been one of the craziest and best weeks of my life! On Friday, February 2nd, 2018 my wife and I went into the doctor’s office for one last sonogram to make sure that things were all ready to go for what we thought would be delivery of our baby the following week….

I am a first generation, community college graduate that never really wanted to leave the community college. So, I did the most logical thing I could and pursued a higher education track that would allow me to do more than just attend community colleges. Hopefully, it would allow me to one day formalize my leadership…