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Luke Miller
Jun 4, 20211 min read
It’s ‘who’ you are with that makes it great.
During my thirties I started to notice that on the rare and infrequent meet-ups with my funniest friends, the muscles in the back of my...
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Luke Miller
May 28, 20211 min read
To make mistakes is human… take responsibility and move on!
Imagine that your closest group of friends likes to share inappropriate content on a group text stream. The content is generally innocent...
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Luke Miller
May 21, 20211 min read
Am I a ‘talky pants’?
“Am I a talky pants?” was the sweet question that our five year old Hazel asked Karina this week. This hint of self awareness, or self...
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Luke Miller
May 14, 20211 min read
Kid Enthusiasm... more please!
I turned 41 this week. For the days preceding my birthday I got the most enthusiastic and excited dialogue from Olive and Hazel. “Dad you...
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Luke Miller
May 7, 20211 min read
Just laugh it off
My spidey senses were tingling when one of my High School Phys. Ed. students begged to take my only ‘Aerobie’ disc out to the field...
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Luke Miller
Apr 30, 20211 min read
A life of Service
During a recent drive Karina and I were chatting about how to bring one of our friends out of the ‘funk’ that they have been in recently....
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Luke Miller
Apr 23, 20211 min read
What have I been preaching?
I get quite a bit of entertainment from fun little ‘Catholic readings’ that my Grandpa leaves on my office desk. These treasures often...
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Luke Miller
Apr 16, 20211 min read
Improve yourself with data
When I found out that my friend Will beat me to buying the ‘Whoop Strap’ fitness, sleep and recovery tracker, I was jealous. I had been...
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Luke Miller
Apr 9, 20211 min read
Breathe some new life into your old machine
Karina and I have been religious about following the ‘KonMari’ method of only keeping things around us that truly bring joy. Sock drawer…...
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Luke Miller
Apr 2, 20211 min read
Avoid a self-awareness failure
I’ve always thought that the antidote to ‘resting bitch face’ would be a mirror or a video camera. Surely once a person observed their...
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Luke Miller
Mar 26, 20211 min read
Is it time for a gratitude injection?
A couple of weeks ago I had a grade 10 CALM class use a gratitude practice as an ‘exit pass’ to leave the day’s lesson. Most of the...
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Luke Miller
Mar 19, 20212 min read
Opening gates for Papa
I am observing so many great memories being created during ‘back-up’ child care days. When tummy pains kept my seven year old daughter...
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Luke Miller
Mar 12, 20211 min read
Maybe it’s time to REFOCUS
Our first baby boy, Friendo (Jack Russell) turned 14 recently. I will confess that I do not love our midnight routine of panicked...
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Luke Miller
Mar 5, 20211 min read
What are your foggy windows?
“Wow, I’d forgotten we have a view!” Karina remarked after the first look out of our new living room windows that got installed this...
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Luke Miller
Feb 26, 20211 min read
The reaction tells the real story
My best friend Scott just won $1,200,000 in a 50/50 draw. When he face-timed me in mild shock to reveal this news, there were a lot of...
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Luke Miller
Feb 19, 20211 min read
Would your 80 year old self be proud?
I had a magical moment on lunch supervision last week. My two beautiful daughters, Hazel (kindergarten), and Olive (grade 2), helped me...
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Luke Miller
Feb 12, 20211 min read
Maybe a disruption to the routine is not so bad.
I may have cussed like a sailor when I found out that my work day routine had been disrupted by the sudden closure of my daughter Hazel’s...
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Luke Miller
Feb 5, 20211 min read
A puzzling leadership connection
This week we finished our fourth Wentworth puzzle. These beautiful wood puzzles from Great Britain are works of art. There was a moment...
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Luke Miller
Jan 29, 20211 min read
They even picked amazing bananas!
It appears that I won’t be seeing as many adults wearing pyjama pants in public in the next little while. Let me explain. We are in our...
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Luke Miller
Jan 22, 20211 min read
Make time to share a laugh
My friend Brett recently shared a story about one of his customers who wore a paper plate attached to jogging pants elastic, as a covid...
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