Fatherhood Friday:Between A Rock and A Hard Funky Place

9 April 2010

This post is part of a cool collection of Moms and Dads hanging out at Dad-Blogs, the premiers site for all things parenting. Click on the link above to check out some great posts by some great people.
Below is a question from a reader who has a serious problem. The problem is important enough that [...]

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HERO-Savior of the World

4 April 2010

Superman is an iconic figure in our culture. He came from a far away place. He arrived as an infant in a cornfield in Kansas. His purpose was to save the world from evil. To save the world from itself. As Clark Kent, he walked among us. As one of us. Never revealing his true [...]

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Fatherhood Friday: The Shot

1 April 2010

This post is part of a series written by some incredible Moms and Dads. We all hang out at Dad-Blogs. Come sit at the cool kids’ lunchtable with us.
One recent evening after work, The Boy asked me if I would play basketball with him. I said, “Sure. On the PlayStation?”
After a long work week and a [...]

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Homegrown Fun (“The Staycation”)

22 March 2010

It has been a few weeks since I have had the privilege of writing you. Things have been hectic around here. The day job, the doctoral studies, and a whole host of things. I’m not griping, I’m just sayin’. I desperately need some time off with the family.
I did manage to take a few days [...]

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The Most Difficult Choice

2 March 2010

Work. We have to do it. We have to do it to provide for our families. We pack our lunches and head off for the day. We board a plane and are gone for days at a time. We leave behind our families and pray that God sees fit for us to return. The people [...]

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The Me in Me and the Me I See

16 February 2010

I stumbled into the bathroom this morning, drunk from a restless sleep the night before. I walked gingerly across the cold, wood floors.
I rubbed the crust from my eyes and take a look in the mirror for what seemed like the first time. What I saw caught me by surprise…
 There was a middle-aged man staring back at [...]

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25 Things We Can Do To Become Better Citizens and Parents

2 February 2010

I was having a conversation with a friend over at Dad-Blogs. We were discussing the negative tone in politics when he said (paraphrasing), 
“I just want what’s good for our country. I want to be able to HOPE again. I don’t care who the president is.”
It made me think for a moment. We have lofty expectations for [...]

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The State of the Union Address: In His Words

28 January 2010

As the President described the “mess” that he inherited from G.W. Bush when he “walked through the door”, the cameras panned to Senator John McCain, who, although you could not hear him, mouthed the words to another senator, “That’s a bunch of bull s***”.
John McCain just earned major cool points in Mr. Man’s book.
Here’s the [...]

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Don “Moose” Lewis: Have You Lost Your Damn Mind?

20 January 2010

There was a link on Twitter today regarding a new minor league basketball team exclusively for white, American-born basketball players. The league plans to place the first team in Augusta. Georgia. Here are a few excerpts from the article:
“The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a news release Sunday evening that it intends to start its [...]

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Fatherhood Friday: Math Is Indisputable

6 January 2010

Fatherhood Friday is a Collection of Posts from Cool Moms and Dads around the Blogosphere. Visit all my buds at www.dad-blogs.com.
  
 Algebra. Defined.
 A branch of mathematics that substitutes letters for numbers. An algebraic equation represents a scale, what is done on one side of the scale with a number is also done to the other side [...]

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