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Giants of Men

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[This is a revised version of a post originally published on Jan. 11, 2009, one that I felt was worth revisiting.]
This weekend, I buried my grandfather. He was a giant among men, and will be sorely missed.
He lost his wife of 65 years to cancer over two years ago, and he still lived at home [...]

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It’s Not the Fall So Much as the Impact

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I had a major reality check this last week.
Maybe reality check is not the correct term for it – perhaps mortality check is. Something happened to me that changed my life in the space of a single second.
I’m writing this propped up in a reclining lawn chair in my living room, with my right [...]

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Thanksgiving Thoughts: Be Grateful for What We Have

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After sharing a great meal with my family on Thanksgiving Day, I sat out by the fire on our back patio, thinking of what I was grateful for this year. I pondered the fact that our giving of thanks quickly becomes just the prelude to the extremely commercial shopping experience of our modern holiday season. [...]

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Providing for Your Family isn’t about Presents, it’s about Presence

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I’ve been following the works of Jonathan Fields for some time now, mostly for the great insights on being an entrepreneur that I found in reading his book Career Renegade. Today, however, he wrote about something close to my heart – fatherhood. More specifically, the trials of providing for our families, and how that can [...]

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Fatherhood: 100 Ways to be a Better Father

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Fatherhood is a tricky proposition. We all want to be great dads, but chances are, our fathers never sat down with us and taught us how to be one.
And we don’t necessarily want to be our fathers. I mean, we want to emulate their positive influence on us, but we also want to do it [...]

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Facebook is Putting My Mother Out Of Business

We used to get a phone call from our mothers once a week with the news from home: weddings, funerals, births, stories of who was doing what (and with whom). Now we can just login and have all of that same information in real-time, with social media.
My buddy recently heard about a wedding proposal in [...]

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