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Celebrate Your Husband This Father’s Day Forget about ties, video cameras, and BBQ supplies. In fact, forget about material items altogether. This Father’s Day, honor the father of your children for the unique individual that he is. Read on for two gift ideas that will hopefully knock his socks off, in one way or another. [...]

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There’s a scene on the Sopranos where Tony takes on AJ, a perpetual underachiever and shmuck even as a 10 year old, in a game of Mariokart.  Tony had spent the better part of a season telling him to “quit wasting his time” but he came down to his kid’s level and they ended up [...]

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  My son was born during the worst of what we’ve been calling “the Great Recession”.  A few months after he was born I got notice of my very temporary layoff from my job as a locomotive conductor. It was a numbers game and I was promised I’d be back in a month, but I [...]

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Posted By: Brothers Al and Igor Tolstoy With Father’s Day fast approaching, we began to reflect on memories of our father and the stories he told us of his father, our Grandfather, Boris Anatolyevich Tolstoy.  We remembered bits and pieces of the story of a man who had seen the rise and fall of empires [...]

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Posted By: Portia It was Spring time and I was four years old. My father and I were out in our Connecticut back yard. We stood in front of a lilac bush in full, fragrant bloom. He asked me my favorite color. I considered the purple of the lilac blossom and the green of the [...]

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Father’s Day – A Reminder that the “step” part of “stepdad” doesn’t erase the “dad” part. Go ahead.  Turn on the nightly news.  There are a lot of headlines about fathers who do a lot of things other than love their stepchildren.  The features do little to help out society’s view of the stepdad’s plight.  [...]

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  When Is It Ok To Have An Affair? To get started with this, let’s get one thing clear. There is no right or wrong answer to this question.  On one side you will have people tell you that in no way, shape, or form is having an affair okay. Then on the other side [...]

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Keeping up appearances – it’s something everyone feels compelled to do.  Long-term relationships are the stuff of a stable society, or so it’s said.  We have a certain idea of what it means to be happy, and that notion includes having a “significant other”.  But really, how fantastic is marriage?  Why do we pretend things [...]

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We’ve all heard the cliché: “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” But is divorce destined to become the next certainty? The overwhelming numbers are not in our favor. In Canada, 41 percent of marriages end in divorce within the first thirty years. For varying reasons, including growing apart, infidelity, affairs, mid-life crises, or money [...]

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  I’m a “Dog person”. We have three dogs that live with us, a Dachshund and two huge Great Danes.  They’re all boys and they’re all attitude, I love them!  They take up space and when they’re not taking their epic walks they’re taking up all the couch space anywhere we are in the house.  [...]

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