Three Conversations To Have Before Your Children Leave For College
A lot of the trials of college life can be mitigated by some simple conversations. My car was loaded and I was ready to hit the road. Eighteen years old and college bound. Mom gave me a hug and asked...
View ArticleHow To Rally in Tornado Alley
Destruction from the tornado that devastated Moore, OKGrowing up in Oklahoma and losing friends to tornadoes, Tim Hoch has learned how to confront one of the wildest forces in nature: the human...
View ArticleMy Zombie Apocalypse Battle Fantasy
Should a Zombie-Apocalypse ever be inflicted on the world, Tim Hoch’s battle strategy includes his wife’s eggplant surprise. My wife was making her eggplant surprise for dinner last night, so I had to...
View ArticleKids Today Don’t Make Out With Monkeys
Kiss me, beautifulLooking back on his own childhood, Tim Hoch wonders if our children are too vaccinated, too protected or too informed.When I was 10 years old my best friend Ricky Meador rode his...
View ArticleMy Imaginary Life
I am either a hero or a failure in my daydreams, but is the present enough for me?—I don’t just see the future, I live there. It’s where I spend a good part of my day. My imagination is a personal...
View ArticleMy Badass Colon
A colonoscopy? Who, me?—I’m a fairly modest guy. I don’t jog shirtless in the neighborhood. You won’t catch me popping off about my encyclopedic recall of the lyrics to every Bee Gees song. I don’t...
View ArticleBaking Bad
Grade A nose candy. Book him, Dan-O.—-Like Walter White in Breaking Bad, I used to traffic in illegal drugs. Or so it appeared. And I’m not gonna lie. Things got pretty dicey.One afternoon last year I...
View Article1 List of 17 Lists That You Must List
Tim Hoch’s list of lists that lists lists. Americans love lists. In fact, according to a recent article in The New Yorker, we refuse to read anything that is not in list form.Paragraphs are just too...
View ArticleA Family Christmas Letter Template
Need help with your holiday humblebrag? Tim Hoch has you covered. Ah yes, the Christmas letter. You know what I’m talking about. The letter that only the bravest of families dares to send. I think...
View Article50 Rules for Marriage
Tim Hoch only has 50 rules for marriage!—-If you don’t regard the list that follows as my most farcical exercise in hypocrisy, I’m afraid you don’t know me very well. I wrote 50 Rules for Sons and 50...
View ArticleThe Healing Power of Listening
Tim Hoch got more than he signed up for when he volunteered to help troubled kids. He found new family.My daughter Sophie was sitting next to my son at breakfast one morning when she asked: “Who do...
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