Fellow family man helping you be a better husband and father — Welcome to my profile page! My name is Adam Hillis. I write to encourage, inspire, and equip family men so their wives don’t leave them and their kids won’t hate them. Why I Write What I Write My wife and I had a rough beginning to our marriage. I imagine similar to most people. As the…

We noticed it and wondered. Quite a while back. But with the lock-downs, and pandemic, and all that, we just sorta let it go. It didn’t seem that bad. Our son was just fine. Then we went out to dinner and realized how bad it was… Our 8-year-old son looked…

A year ago I was listening to a podcast and heard an unforgettable statement. Being married for 15 years (with a lot of bumps along the way) I’m always interested in how people make it to “death do us part.” …

30 days ago, I signed up for Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole’s cohort-based course, Ship 30 for 30. In that time, I wrote & published 27 Atomic Essays, learned the fundamentals of Digital Writing, made friends, and gained some clarity on what my niche might be. …

If I could go back in time, these are the 7 things I wish I knew about parenting. (It would have saved me a lot of wasted time and effort.) 1. You can’t have nice things I was given an old, beat up, solid oak table in college. My roommate and I refinished it and it…

English translations of the Bible miss a lot of the intended meaning. The original Hebrew and Greek are more descriptive than English, and we often miss important nuances in our translations. The Adam and Eve creation story is packed with more meaning than translated. I want to focus on two…

Build your marriage on these three pillars and you can’t go wrong. Vows Many marriages lack true commitment to the phrase “til death do us part.” People don’t have one or two big fights and then just get divorced. It never happens on whim. …

I wish I could remember his name to give him credit, but my 7th grade English teacher drilled this into us. The image of his slides on the overhead projector are burned into my mind as he would go through paragraph examples with his green pen making corrections. Don’t use the same word at the beginning of consecutive sentences or paragraphs. It sounds…

Do you want to get married, or are you recently married? I have been married for 15 years now. And what I can tell you (from experience) is that in order to make it last you need to listen, apologize well, and forgive even better. So, here’s the 1 tip…