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NATIONAL MEN'S HEALTH WEEK - June 14-20

Big Russ and Me: Father and Son--Lessons of Life

by Tim Russert © 2004

"The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t remember something that Big Russ taught me." Over the last two decades, Tim Russert has become one of the most trusted and admired figures in American television journalism. Throughout his career he has spent time with presidents and popes, world leaders and newsmakers, celebrities and sports heroes, but one person stands out from the rest in terms of his strength of character, modest grace, and simple decency—Russert’s dad, Big Russ.

It has been an eventful and deeply satisfying journey, but no matter where his career has taken him, Russert’s fundamental values still spring from that small house on Woodside Avenue and the special bond he shares with his father—a bond he enjoys now with his own son. As Tim Russert celebrates the indelible connection between fathers and sons, readers everywhere will laugh, cry, and identify with the lessons of life taught by the indomitable Big Russ. from Book Description.

Big Russ & Me - Excerpt... by Tim Russert
My Father's War
“It was a lot tougher for the guys who died.”
Not long ago, I took part in an online conversation hosted by the Washington Post. As I sat at a computer, people around the country sent in questions about Meet the Press and other topics, and I did my best to answer them. Near the end of the hour, somebody asked if there was one individual whom I would especially like to interview. The person who submitted that question was probably expecting me to name an elusive political figure, or perhaps a fascinating character from history, such as Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus, or my first choice, Jesus Christ. But I took the question personally, and answered it immediately and from my heart: more than anyone else, I would like to interview my dad.
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Father's Day Article... by Jim Bracewell, MENSIGHT Editor
Fishing for Daddy.
The canal and the area around it is called Cross Creek. It was the home ground of Majorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling and the subject of the movie Cross Creek. I like to fantasize that Mrs. Rawlings was at home making her famous “Utterly Deadly Southern Pecan Pie” while me and my daddy were fishing nearby. She was still alive during those early fishing expeditions so it is possible.
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Guest Article... by Warren Farrell, Ph. D.
Why Dads Matter: The Revolution Has Started. Heads Up.
On Mother's Day the most phone calls are made. On Father's Day the most collect phone calls are made.
We still think of dads as wallets... or as deadbeats if they fail to be wallets-- but reality is changing faster than the image. In the last twenty years the percentage of single dads has more than doubled, from 10% to 23% of all single-parent households. Almost one in four. Moms moving out of the home has been a headline-creating revolution; dads moving into the home has been the quietest revolution. Without the headlines, we miss the revolution. A case in point…
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
My Father's Hand
I remember looking at the back of my hand a few months ago and I was surprised that I didn't know it anymore. This sun browned hand with all the darker spots on it wasn't the hand I remembered. It looked more like my father's hand....and yet not. My fingers are longer than his were and the veins on my hand more prominent. But my hand looked as old as I remembered his to be.
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Guest Article... by Marty Nemko
Men's Career Issues
Most career issues apply to both sexes, but a few are gender-specific. In honor of Father’s Day, here are my thoughts on some men’s career issues.
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Guest Article... by Glenn Sacks
National Fatherhood Initiative's Ad Campaign Insults African-American Fathers
While child support orders are often enforced with great zeal, courts are slow to take effective measures to enforce visitation orders. It is difficult for low-income men to afford attorneys to fight for enforcement, particularly since they are already struggling with stiff child support obligations. As a result, many African-American men have become what prominent divorce researcher Sanford Braver calls "fathers without children."
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS... monthly column by Mark Brandenburg, M.A
A Fathers Value
It happened when I least expected it. During an afternoon in which I had been lamenting my role as a "janitor" with my family, my seven-year-old daughter put things back into perspective for me. "You're the best daddy in the world," she whispered to me as she gave me a big hug.
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
No Plateau
He was not a toy. He was human. I was his father. I still am, and I can't remember what life was like without Alex. Lately the last of the seven years has disappeared into the worry that Alex, who has been diagnosed as autistic, will never live on his own. The worry that he will die, not before us, but after. That as an autistic adult, he will live in the care of strangers for whom he is just a paycheck.
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PROSTATE CANCER JOURNAL... by Tim Baehr. A courageous three part story of his experience dealing with the life-threatening reality of prostate cancer.
Part three
My wife says that the report of my surgery will be very short: Start the IV; arrive at the operating room; wake up. Done. It was almost that simple.
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TOWARD MANHOOD... A book in progress by Larry Pesavento
A Journey to the Wilderness of the Soul
Author and therapist Larry Pesavento of CHRISTOS Men's Center invites you to join in the process of critiquing this book prior to it's publication. MENSIGHT will publish a chapter each month and we would like for you to submit suggestions and discuss your opinions on our Men's Issues Forum.
From chapter 4 - Part 1...  Most men come in to counseling because they have experienced an involuntary and sudden separation from a mother object. Initiatory separation will always involve some separation from what seems comfortable and secure. This separation triggers great fear and desperation in the boy within the man. He is being separated from what is familiar emotionally, from what he thought he could always count on, from what he thought he should always have.
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Go to New Reviews & Interviews... by J. Steven Svoboda.

MILITARY HONOR ROLL... Pay tribute to the Veterans or Active Duty military in your life on our perpetual Military Honor Roll page
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FATHERS HONOR ROLL... Pay tribute to your father (grandfather, great grandfather, etc.) on our perpetual Fathers Honor Roll page
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