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Asthma and Chihuahuas
Chihuahuas are serious business. To begin this blog post, I would like to warn you all that I will be quoting two of the most reliable...
Owen Dargatz
Mar 18, 20225 min read
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Me and my boy
A few days ago, I wrote about my eldest's son Simon's twelfth birthday in The Daily Scroll. It's easy to be a dad. In fact, for many men,...
Owen Dargatz
Feb 20, 20224 min read
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"Let's flip a coin"
Live by the coin, die by the coin. A month ago, we found ourselves crossing the border into Mexico at the Tapachula crossing at 1:00AM....
Owen Dargatz
Nov 27, 20218 min read
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How it's going
Dear, You Guys, Baby steps are the only way to take on a change as significant as we have this year. In fact, any lasting change I've...
Owen Dargatz
Sep 22, 20215 min read
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Hope is with us.
We are certain of something we currently cannot see. As we pick up little pieces of trash from the beach with a small group of kids, the...
Owen Dargatz
Aug 9, 20213 min read
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There are adjustments when moving with five children to Guatemala.
Ouuuulala! It's been a month here in Guatemala, and I have been ITCHING to have the time, health, space, and mental capacity to write...
Owen Dargatz
Jun 27, 20214 min read
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72 HOURS IN GUATEMALA
It’s hard to find a starting point for this section of our family story. There is a lot of great material I am behind on in communicating...
Owen Dargatz
May 28, 20214 min read
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Surrender
When asking friends what their preferred way out of this life would be, the answer is almost always "dying in my sleep." While there are...
Owen Dargatz
May 5, 20213 min read
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Giving Experiment #1
The Giving Experiment is our attempt as a family to create positive ripples. In past posts, I've admitted that we have no idea what we're...
Owen Dargatz
Apr 27, 20217 min read
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Happiness is hard, but hard is okay.
Everybody knows that the key to happiness is gratefulness. How to be happy isn't the question. The question is how to practice...
Owen Dargatz
Apr 21, 20212 min read
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Farewell Home!
Do you know that honeymoon feeling of love with someone new? We've got a case of it in our family. Today was officially our last full day...
Owen Dargatz
Apr 7, 20213 min read
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