Village Wisdom Six Dads' Reflections on Lessons Learned

Six dads with over a century of dad'ing under our belts. Intentionally blank pages between chapters for the reader to fill with their own wisdom before passing them down generationally. This is filled with humor, advice, experience, regret, stories, and ideas for any dad.

John lives in Iola, Texas with his wife, son, and daughter. He's an Army veteran, frequent consumer of Bulleit Rye and plays poker like a donkey. He enjoys running, strumming a guitar, and tinkering with most technologies. He's a high functioning nerd that finds happiness from farting in congested elevators.Trent is the husband of Paula Beth Carlson, the wife of his youth. He is also father of twelve children, four of which are on the Other Side, and grandfather of fifteen (at time of publishing). He is an electrical engineer and enjoys starting up companies. During his career he has helped with several electric industry startups including an electric generation and transmission cooperative, a consulting firm, two independent system operators and an independent transmission operating company. In the middle of electric industry startups he even helped with a dairy startup. He's currently working on a startup fertilizer business built on rural economic development in the heartland of America. He loves guns, the outdoors, hunting, working out with F3 Nation guys and, most of all, he loves Jesus Christ the Savior of the world Who made a Way for him to become a child of God. He and his wife of over forty years currently live in Highland Village, Texas.Scott is a father of two; grandfather of three. Forty-plus year career athletic coach and still competes as an athlete attaining state, sectional, national and world rankings. Recently found his motherland in Austin, Texas where he gets excited about eating a great breakfast at a gas station and going to a convenience store 5x larger than any supermarket he's ever shopped. His pronouns are Y'all and Tex.Javi is 36 years young. He's been married for almost 15 years to his beautiful wife Dani. They have two wonderful children, Cayla (13 in a couple of weeks) and Jordan (11). Cayla is a cheerleader for her middle school and Jordan is an all around athlete with baseball being his primary sport. He has many hobbies such as tennis, golf and poker to name a few. He loves to watch sports. He cheers for the Houston Astros and Dallas Cowboys. In his down time he loses chess matches to Dani, she's a tough one. He enjoys spending time hanging out with friends and family or traveling if he gets the chance.Stephen grew up in Bryan, Texas and now lives in the Denver, Colorado area. He has two daughters that keep him busy turning one light off at a time. He likes fly fishing and is terrible at golf. His favorite eats are enchiladas and Cosmic Brownies, with a preference for black coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon. He has two cats, Lil' Kiki Reyes and Behbeh the Cat. His dream car is an El Camino and favorite ice cream is a StarKiss from Dairy Queen (the red, white, and blues ones - not really sure why they make any other kind). In writing this, he has discovered his identity to be closely aligned with food.Casey hails from Muncie, Indiana and is a devout Hoosiers fan! Don't hold that against him, though. He's a licensed therapist. He's been married since 2017 and has a stepson, and two beautiful daughters of his own with his wife, Briana. Definitely more gray in the beard since having the girls but fatherhood tends to do that! For all you readers, he hopes you enjoy the ride, not just within this book, but in life as a father (or whoever else is reading). It has been the most rewarding and challenging experience he's ever been involved in.