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Fathers Day Articles...

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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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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ARTICLE... by Kathleen Parker
I Have My Father's Hands
I have my father's hands. I've always known that, of course, in the way that people always know they have their aunt's eyes or their great-grandmother's auburn hair.

Yet I'm startled to see his hands moving across the keyboard as I write. If I were not my father's daughter, I might weep. He would frown upon such self-indulgence, peering askance over the rim of his half-moon glasses, and say something to make me laugh instead.
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Excerpt from Big Russ & Me... 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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JUNE 13-19

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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Guest Article... by Dr. Linda Neilsen
Daughters: Strengthen Your Relationship With Your Father
Why is almost all of the advice on father-daughter relationships directed only at fathers? Once daughters have matured beyond childhood, why put so much responsibility or blame on fathers when problems arise or when the father-daughter relationship falls apart? Instead, let’s encourage daughters to be more active in creating the kind of relationship they want with their fathers by offering them a “roadmap through dad territory”. Let’s teach young women the specific skills and the non-sexist attitudes that enable them to strengthen their father-daughter relationships.…
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
It's Catching Up
I miss my dad. I thought it had just sneaked up on me, this feeling, this yearning, for him, but maybe I set it up by the sudden intrusion into my consciousness of this is my translation, "Way Marie". I know that's not the real title of the song, but it's what my kid memory of it is. "Way Marie, Way Marie" and then it went on in Italian.
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
The Lot...
I've been on this spot many times with many different people. I picked the stone at a local monument shop 27 years ago. For most of my life, "LeRoy A. Stimpson, Father, 1917-1974" were the only words engraved on it, in black letters on the gray granite, flecked with brown, dead lengths of mowed grass. I was here many times with my mother, to what we always called "the lot," helping her to lug water from the faucet up the gravel road. Flowers need water.
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TRANSITIONS... monthly column by Kenneth F. Byers
My Fathers Tree...
I miss my father most, of course, around Fathers Day. At some level I always miss my father, yet because of this visit, it will now be different than it has ever been. There is a tree next to his grave that could not have been more than a seedling when they first met. The tree has given him shade which I am sure he would have enjoyed as no one else could. Somehow, I am also sure, he has nourished that tree in return. I wished him Happy Fathers Day and talked to him about his grandchildren and all kinds of things that I thought he might like to know.
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS... monthly column by Mark Brandenburg, M.A
"Real" Fathers Day Gifts For Dads
Fathers are becoming more involved in their families today. They have a deep desire to connect emotionally with their families. However, they often lack the skills to do so. Here are ten “gift ideas” for Father’s Day to help the father in your life to relax, enjoy, and to connect with other loved ones:
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HANDS-ON DADS ARE IMPORTANT
Fathers are one of the great, often untapped, resources in the lives of their children. What dads actually do with their kids matters more than how often they do it. Even if a dad is only available occasionally to dress, feed, and care for a baby, the child will be sure to benefit. The way fathers hold, touch, talk to, and play with a baby matters more to the child's overall development than the amount of time a dad punches on the parental time clock.
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GUEST ARTICLE... by Glenn Sacks
American Fathers Get a Bad Rap
American fathers get a bad rap. Unfairly stereotyped by critics left and right, male and female, at best the American father is generally portrayed as a second class parent. Worse still are the common images of fathers as deadbeats, philanderers, and abusers. However, research indicates that the overwhelming majority of American fathers are none of these.
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