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Summer Vacation



Dad is enjoying his summer vacation. 
We will be back after Labor Day.


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Three Latest Columns


History Lessons  by Bebe Vaughan
My memoir will be my search for my father.  Because so little is known about him, everything requires research.  I am not very good at research, but I cling to two constant companions:  Memory and Imagination

Single  by Jesse Young
These are my qualifications: I’m a dad, and I’m not married.  I’m not single now, either, but someday soon that will be more than just  A State of Mind.


Empty Nest  by Mark Wiertalla
We learned to work as a team when packing for the weekend, setting up a tent in the dark and finding sticks to cook
hot dogs.  The best family-building tool is  Camping.

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Three Pithy Quotes



“It doesnt matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
 
 –– Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 October 4, 1974), American poet and writer


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“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”
 
–– Jerry Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954), actor, comedian and father of daughter Sascha (pictured here with wife Jessica Sklar), son Julian and son Shepherd

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 “A noted Tory, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw and, after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, ‘Well! Give me peace in my day.’ Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must sometime or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, ‘If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.’ ”



–– Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809), American revolutionary and author, The American Crisis

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Five Classic Columns

Favorites from Columns Past

Teen Talk  by Miles Lester
From September 2007:  I
ll answer your questions as well as I can, but please bear in mind that Im a teenage boy and I forget things, even though I am  The Answer Man.

What Women Want  by Laura Barrett
From August 2008: The divorce has had positive effects on the emotional well-being of my family – on the grown-ups and children alike.  But it isn’t all peaches and cream when it comes to  The Divorce Schedule.

Newbies  by Jessica Kearney Heidgerken
From August 2007We assumed that pets would not serve to prepare us for parenthood.  But now we see  The Ways Our Baby Is Like a Puppy.

Great Expectations  by Harry Shenk
From November 2007 These are the top ten  Questions that Expectant Parents Ask Each Other.

Teen Talk  by Ethan Sorscher
From June 2008  If you are what you eat, I must be everything, because  I Love to Eat.


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Three Ridiculous Videos



Balancing a Career and New Baby
takes, oh, about a minute
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colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorKeyboard Cat


Dads Are Threat No. 5
Watch the first minute of Stephen Colbert's threatdown report.


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Tall Tail
Son, your father is fuming.




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Forty Fascinating Facts




Top 10 Names for Baby Boys in 1958
1.  Michael
2.  David
3.  James
4.  Robert
5.  John
6.  William
7.  Mark
8.  Richard
9.  Thomas
10. Steven


Top 10 Names for Baby Boys in 2008
1.  Jacob
2.  Michael
3.  Ethan
4.  Joshua
5.  Daniel
6.  Alexander
7.  Anthony
8.  William
9.  Christopher
10. Matthew


Top 10 Names for Baby Girls in 1958
1.  Mary
2.  Susan
3.  Linda
4.  Karen
5.  Patricia
6.  Debra
7.  Deborah
8.  Cynthia
9.  Barbara
10. Donna


Top 10 Names for Baby Girls in 2008
1.  Emma
2.  Isabella
3.  Emily
4.  Madison
5.  Ava
6.  Olivia
7.  Sophia
8.  Abigail
9.  Elizabeth
10. Chloe


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