Archive for the ‘Family’ Category


A Coach’s Thoughts on Record Setting Badger Women’s Hockey Game

Last night saw NCAA record-setting attendance for women’s hockey. The “Fill the Bowl” promotion’s $1 tickets skyrocketed attendance to over 12,000 and the Johnson family went too. Sadly, the #1 ranked Badgers were rather tame and their high octance offense was held to just one goal (shown above) by a clearly inferior Bemidji team. Happily, [...]

Read More...

Marketing Lessons For Small Business Owners From My Kids Favorite YouTube Channels

You know, when we first had kids, I never thought I’d be Googling usernames like Chuggaaconroy and NintendoCapriSun. Griffin spends hours watching Chuggaaconroy and NintendoCapriSun narrate their console game exploits relatd to Pikmin, Zelda and Super Mario. There’s actually a name for it. It’s called “Let’s Play.” G probably does it as much as he [...]

Read More...

The Parable of the Donkey in the Well

DONKEY—-A GOOD LESSON One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn’t worth it to try to retrieve the [...]

Read More...

Adversity – It’s All In How You Respond

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life, and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose. [...]

Read More...

Red Green Moments at the Johnson Household

If you don’t know Red Green, you should. Red Green is a Canadian comedian who is leader of the Possum Lodge and a self-proclaimed handyman. His show pokes fun a rural life and city life in equal measure. One of Red Green’s running gags is called Handyman Corner and always wraps with the line “If [...]

Read More...