Issues

Good Morning and welcome to the first ever cross-platform, living Daily Dispatch titled, “Live By the Die”. It has been requested, for many months, to have an official Daily Dispatch Instagram account. I have resisted nearly as much as I have resisted the other highly requested option, a podcast. My resistance has been due, primarily, […]

“A Dispatch a day keeps the devil away” Chris Pine Monday: Dear Dispatchery, Today we finally live up to the “Daily” in “Daily Dispatch”. People have asked me in a variety of ways, with various degrees of kindness or judgment, “What’s going on in that head of yours?” Well, this week you will get a

“And there’s the insult we were missing.” Lightning McQueen (from Cars) We don’t often get political on the Daily Dispatch.  I have written about my faith, I have written about sports, I have written the subjective as objective like it was my daggum job. But I’ve avoided the divisive topic of politics. I’m usually one

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S. Eliot Good morning, What do you do for work? Maybe you’re a pediatrician or a general contractor or a train conductor. Are you currently working in the profession you’ve always wanted to work in or feel most

“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.” Alice Roosevelt Longworth Good Morning, What’s up TikTok generation? How are those attention spans doing? Want to try something CRAZY?!? Go outside your house or apartment and leave your phone, wallet, and keys inside. Walk around for 10 minutes and

“Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.” Patricia Cornwell Picture this, it’s Friday morning around 9 AM. You’re nursing the last bit of the coffee you made earlier and wondering if you should refill before a fresh Daily Dispatch hits your inbox. You’re trying to cut back on caffeine, so maybe a second

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” Heraclitus Good Morning and Happy New Year! New Year’s day is also my wife Niki’s birthday, so I want to thank you all for counting down the seconds alongside me each and every year

On our Christmas tree (which has been up since before Thanksgiving) hangs an ornament I made when I was 6 years old. It is a paper star with my name written on it. My handwriting looks equally as bad today, so the “2001” written on the back is the only way to know I didn’t

“Misery might love company, but so does joy. And joy throws much better parties.” Billy Ivey My buddy Conner asked an important question to our guys’ group message the other day, “Where do babies come from?” Just kidding. What he really asked was, “When was the last time you were excited to get up? Like

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” Molière I have a confession. Sometimes it’s hard for me to think of ideas to write about. I know you all think of me as a man flowing with brilliance and ideas and wit and wisdom. While you are correct, it doesn’t always translate to