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Reader Feedback: Thank You, Ben Stein
By not in system - AOL News(June 22) -- I would like to thank you on this Father's Day, Mr. Stein ("What My Father Left Me," by Ben Stein). A lot of what you talked about is true of my father also. My dad would often say that a man is only allowed to cry at one thing and that one thing was the movie "Brian's Song." Yet, like your dad, my father cried when something affected him in good and bad ways. I also have the spending gene, although I could never figure out how we were so happy growing up without a lot of money. I only had the one hero to look up to growing up and that was my father. He showed me love and support ...
Father's Day: Celebrating Dad for 100 Years
By Chris Epting - AOL News(June 19) -- You could call Sonora Smart Dodd the "Mother of Father's Day." After all, the holiday, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, was inspired by her. Dodd's mother died in 1898 while giving birth, leaving her father, William Jackson Smart, to raise Dodd and her five younger brothers (including the newborn baby) on a remote farm near Spokane, Wash. While attending a Mother's Day sermon in 1909, Dodd decided that fathers deserve the same recognition. Within a year, she -- along with some help from her pastor, the Rev. Conrad Bluhm, the Spokane YMCA and the Ministerial Alliance ...
Learning the Ropes About Sailing, and Life, From My Father
By not in system - AOL News(June 19) -- We weren't a family that raced -- we sailed. We never had a fancy boat; the biggest sloop my father ever had was 30 feet long, and he shared the ownership with one of his friends. But every summer we went to the coast of Massachusetts near Fall River, the mill town where he grew up. And the first thing on the list was to go down to the boat yard, where I was in charge of sanding and varnishing before we put the boat in the water. On our kitchen wall was a tide chart that we had to learn, since our summer house sat on an estuary strewn with sand bars. I know the river; I have ...
Father's Day Health Scare: PSA's Target Dad's Health
By Katie Drummond - Politics DailyA federal health agency is using tough love to convince dad to see a doctor, by timing a series of hard-hitting public service announcements with Father's Day. "Congratulations, I'm sure you'll have many happy years here," a real estate broker in one of the four advertisements tells a smiling family of their new home. "Except you," she tells the group's dad. "You'll be dead in three years, struck down by the same disease that killed your father." The ads, created by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), are an attention-grabbing effort to convince men that they ought to ...
Un-Father's Day
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyRest in peace and all that, but he was not a good father. I'd rather not go into details. But one day, when I was a little girl, he brought me a tiny pink eraser from work. I'd been begging for weeks, God knows why. ...
Happy Father's Day, Mr. Presidents!
By Ken Layne - Politics DailyThis is that special time of year when, as a cheap afterthought to Mother's Day, we sort of vaguely celebrate that other parent who may or may not be around. We call it Father's Day, and our nation's various recent presidential people aren't very good at it, either.The dad who best represents lousy parenting and America's image-over-substance marketing economy is, of course, our greatest president, Father Ronald Reagan. Married, divorced and married again, Reagan fathered children by two different women and adopted a boy with his first wife, shortly before he divorced her. The children who ...
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