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Why we share even the painful stories (Excerpt #3 – Forgiving our Fathers and Mothers)

We’re still putting our feet up —it is summer after all – skimming without hurry through Leslie Leyland Field’s book, “Forgiving our Fathers and Mothers.” If you missed the first couple of excerpts, they are here and here. This is Leslie’s reason for writing about all this in the first place, her reason for telling […]

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Let go of your life. Be surprised.

2 Comments / Daily Dad / July 26, 2014 / 2014, Bilbo Baggins, decision making, humour / satire, life's surprises, Madame Curie, marriage, Order of Canada, our Canadian home, Pierre Curie, The Hobbit, what makes God laugh / 4 minutes of reading

From my last post here, the only thing left to say is that while Jon’s birthday cake was finely decorated, My Bride is very much decorated in another rather beautiful way, with the Order of Canada now, which you know about through this. Yes, it is getting to be a regular question asked of me these days,

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Why I should be named Son-in-Law of the Year

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / July 22, 2014 / 2014, birthday parties, birthdays, childhood memories, extended family, family videos, humour / satire, our Canadian home / 3 minutes of reading

I was on the phone this morning and got the question – again – ‘so what’s it like being married to someone so decorated?’ I figured the fellow meant this, not the chocolate cake we gave Jon for his birthday party the other day, although it was, I must say, a fine cake, covered in black, red

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Celebrating an old life lost. And a young one with joy.

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / July 18, 2014 / 2014, birthdays, funerals, God's nature, our Canadian home, soulfulness, the neighbours / 3 minutes of reading

By the time I came home that day there were already six vehicles in front of the tiny condo that is our neighbour’s – an ambulance, a fire truck, two Emergency 911 vehicles and two paramedic trucks – but they could have brought every life-saving unit this side of the moon and it wouldn’t have mattered

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Germany wins World Cup on remarkable Froese Family anniversary

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / July 14, 2014 / 2014, celebrating Germany, father-son relationships, Froese family history, German flag, German nationalism, Germany 2014 World Cup win, Germany World Cup team, our Canadian home / 4 minutes of reading

I had given my large German flag to my father some time ago, a gift for him to, with a Canadian flag, run up the flagpole that for many years stood by a tree I would climb as a boy at our home in Niagara. But it never made from Dad’s home-office to that pole, and,

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Germany wins! But my face is still so (im)perfect

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / July 9, 2014 / 2014, Berlin, Brazil, cosmetic surgery, faces, Froese family history, Germany - Brazil World Cup game, Germany World Cup team, humour / satire, our Canadian home, World Cup 2014 / 6 minutes of reading

It was the Ungame and this time the question was for Jon: “Describe your father in three words.” “Big nose,” he started out. The other two words, I somehow blocked out. Then I had to answer the same question about my own father. “Old. Tough. German.” Which is what Jon will be facing, someday. So, careful son.

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Hannah and the Good Neighbour (Excerpt #2 – Forgiving our Fathers and Mothers)

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / July 4, 2014 / 2014 / 4 minutes of reading

It’s Hannah’s turn now for a few days of Daddy Time and we’re up on a lake near Owen Sound, just my daughter and myself, swimming and gaming and doing plenty of things and then there is this moment. It’s last night and it’s something to remember because Hannah, who is just 8, wants to read from her new

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On being loved widely. And deeply. (And, oh yeah, receiving the Order of Canada.)

8 Comments / Daily Dad / June 30, 2014 / 2014, being loved widely versus deeply, Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese, Order of Canada, our Canadian home, Save the Mothers / 4 minutes of reading

We’re in the van on a long drive and we’re talking about being loved and just what on earth this means. Liz is only 11, but she’s there, she can talk about it and engage and we get on the topic of Mom, who we both love and who is also, if you didn’t know,

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