It is March 20 today and that means one thing: We are exactly one month away from Easter. It also means that in 2025 this date falls on a Thursday so let’s get started with the latest rundown…

Make It Nine – Every year near Sloan’s birthday, I create the first ever photo we took together. On March 17, 2017, I posed with in my green polo as I swaddled my baby girl. Although I can no longer swaddle Sloan, I can still throw on my same green polo and we can still pose in a way that honors the spirit of the original photo.

Sloan and I pose for the same photo every year. My green polo is still holding up!

50 Shades of Green – I shared this photo on Instagram and thought it deserved the Don’t Blink treatment as well. The different shades of green make this a spectacularly hideous image in terms of colors clashing but that also gives it some charm…a lucky Irish charm.

Green, anyone?

Leprechaun Trap – She makes one every year, with each new one getting more elaborate, but somehow the leprechaun always seems to get away. This is the leprechaun trap Sloan made on St. Patrick’s Day Eve. She put a lot of work into it, but alas, the leprechaun managed to escape once again.

Sloan had a lot of fun making her leprechaun trap.

Throwback – Is your bracket busted yet? Speaking of the NCAA Tournament, on this day 10 years ago I was in Omaha as part of the travel party for the Coastal Carolina University men’s basketball contingent. On this particular evening, I sat on the floor under the basket and shot photos as the #1-seeded Wisconsin Badgers defeated my #16-seeded Chanticleers. Even though it was a loss, the game was still fun. But even better was what transpired a few hours prior. I worked with the social media manager at Wisconsin to develop a back-and-forth between the two flagship Twitter accounts of both institutions. It went viral! Still a super cool career moment.

In 2015, I traveled with the Chanticleer men’s basketball team to the NCAA tournament.

2025 Hearts On Fire Men’s Conference – This past Saturday, I attended the Hearts On Fire Men’s Conference hosted by the Catholic Diocese of Spokane. Always held at St. Thomas More in north Spokane, I try to go every year. Curtis Martin, the founder of FOCUS Ministries, was the headlining speaker. A superstar in the U.S. Catholic world, it was really cool to listen to him in-person. He presented different talks based on the three stages of the evangelization model championed by FOCUS: Win – Build – Send. Besides Martin’s presence, it was a fruitful day that allowed those in attendance to attend mass, go to confession, pray the rosary as a big group, and worship at holy hour. What an event!

Curtis Martin of FOCUS Ministries speaks to the audience gathered at St. Thomas More in north Spokane for Hearts On Fire Men’s Conference.

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Hope everyone has a great weekend. We will be hosting Sloan’s birthday party on Saturday so hopefully I will be able to tell you about it next week. Until then, as my dad always says, “be good.” Don’t Blink.