You already know the feeling.
Sunday dinner ends. Car doors slam shut. Tail lights fade down the street.
And you’re standing alone in the driveway, staring at empty pavement, with an ache in your chest you can’t quite name.
I wanted to say something real today.
I wanted this visit to matter more than it did.
The clock is ticking louder than you’d like to admit. Those middle and high school years — the ones that shape a soul — are slipping through your fingers faster than you can hold on.
Your grandchild is right there at the table quietly navigating a world filled with anxiety, peer pressure, and questions you wish you could help them answer.
You want to pour faith into them. Grit. Share wisdom. The things that'll help them meet life’s challenges.
But you don’t know how to break through the silence.
You don’t know how to compete with a phone.
And somewhere underneath it all sits your real fear — not that you’ll fail, but that you’ll run out of time before you’ve handed them what they need to thrive.
That’s the exact problem this newsletter was built to solve.
I didn’t learn how to break through human walls from a textbook. I certainly didn’t learn it from a marketing plan.
I learned it in hospital rooms. In hospice rooms. In forty years of ministry and grief work, where I watched, again and again, that the expensive toys get forgotten — but a lamp, a jar of buttons, an old pocketknife, anchored to the right story at the right moment, lives in a person’s heart for good.
That’s what I hand you every week: an ordinary object, and the door it opens into your grandchild’s heart.
Every single week — free. One narrative object talk. An ordinary item, the story behind it, and a simple prompt to share it with your grandchild tonight. No prep. No script to memorize. Just your presence and fifteen spare minutes.
The moment you subscribe. A free copy of my eBook "Four Stories Worth Passing Down” lands in your inbox — a sample of what you could read each week if you’ll choose The Grandparent Pass.
If You Want to Go Further
Some of you will read the free lesson each week and feel it’s enough.
But some of you will want more tools — the word-for-word scripts, the deeper archive, and the resources built for the hardest conversations.
That’s why I created the Grandparent Pass.
For nine dollars a month, you can receive up to two object lessons a month—custom made for a specific struggle your grandchild is facing, or a memory you want your grandson or granddaughter to share with their grandchildren one day. You’ll also get conversation guides designed to help you get past a teenager’s defenses, and full access to the archive.
Most grandparents wonder the same thing:
“How can I make the little time I have with my grandchildren really matter?”
The Grandparent Pass is designed to help you answer that question.
Try the Grandparent Pass for thirty days. If it hasn’t created a real, noticeable breakthrough with your grandchild by then — tell me. I will refund you myself, personally, no questions asked.
I’m not protecting my income here. I’m protecting your trust. If this doesn’t work for your family, I don’t want your money.
Don’t run out of time before you’ve poured everything in.
The next object talk is already on its way — simple, gentle, ready to use the moment you need it.
Before you spend a single penny, just read this week’s free post.
If it feels right...
If it feels simple enough to use at the table tonight...
If it feels strong enough to make a difference...
Then claim your seat.
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Your greatest gift to your grandchildren won't be something you leave for them. It will be what you leave in them.
-Your Friend, Howell
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