by Jon Acuff | Mar 24, 2020 | Do Over
“Jenny, does my voice sound scratchy to you?” I ask this subtly so as not to alert her to what I am really thinking. “You don’t have Coronavirus,” she responds. Nineteen years of marriage has given her highly-tuned worry radar. “That’s not what I was asking,” I say....
by Jon Acuff | May 11, 2017 | Do Over
What’s your fast food guilty pleasure? Don’t say the Outback or the Olive Garden. Those aren’t fast food technically. Those are sit down restaurants. Those aren’t guilty pleasure. I’m talking about the place you go when you’re alone on a business trip. The place you...
by Jon Acuff | May 5, 2017 | Do Over
I’ve written about this before, but this month, college graduates will have a hard time finding jobs because their parents refuse to move to Florida. It’s not the pythons, alligators, sharks, panthers or bears preventing the exodus to the Sunshine State, it’s...
by Jon Acuff | Apr 18, 2017 | Do Over
At first, I was going to ask him about our pizza. We were waiting at a table in a small restaurant in our town. A man in a suit approached and I naturally assumed he was the manager. Only he wasn’t, he was a magician. His job was to entertain guests on busy...
by Jon Acuff | Feb 13, 2017 | Do Over
Last week we planned on giving away 100 copies of Do Over but we were so blown away by the number of entries, we decided to double the amount of books we gave away! It’s really fun to give people who are excited about the book a chance to read it for free, and I...
by Jon Acuff | Feb 8, 2017 | Do Over
Sit still. Stay quiet. Keep your head down. Work your 40 hours for 40 years and get a gold watch and a one way ticket to Florida. Dream about what might have been but wasn’t. For years, maybe decades, those were the rules. Dreams were frivolous, gossamer that the...
