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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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Generally, I wish all the fathers – but really those who are dads, daddies, daddas, papas, and other endearing male parental types – out there a Happy Father’s Day.  Today is the appropriate day for barbecue and booze – beef and beer.  Substitute those elements according to your lifestyle choice, and party responsibly yet heartily. [...]

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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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Some fathers are good fathers. They tell you they love you and buy you ice cream when you are feeling low. Some fathers are great fathers. They tuck you in at night and make sure there are no monsters under your bed. Some are amazing fathers. They make you feel like you are the most [...]

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