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A message for Liz – Just Be It

So I’m in front of Liz’s class – I think there were three classes put together actually – and we’re ...
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The Brady Bunch … and seeing a shrink?

We got home late but it wasn't a school night so the children wanted to watch The Brady Bunch. Season ...
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Is parenting your highest calling?

Of all the myths of parenthood, one of the biggest has to be that children can make you happy and ...
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A good deal all around

‘Daddy, Daddy!’ Liz could barely contain herself. I was reading. She was going up on her tip-toes, up and down, ...
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A father can be many things

I’m on the elliptical at the club and the news clip shows a bloody and ugly scene from yet another ...
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Eat well, do well

Being popular and oatmeal don’t seem to have a lot in common. But you have to know Hannah. My daughter, ...
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Jon’s premarital woes continue

So, they’re still at it, still after my son and asking for his hand in marriage – Agnes and Rainer ...
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What do you mean, ‘intact’?

The photo, which had been shot for our engagement, has been on the wall of one home office or another: ...
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‘So, Daddy, it was here? It was right here?’

Speaking of returning to places that are good for the soul, the earth of my elementary school is one such ...
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Taking your soul on a weekend getaway

So we’re on a ferry going from Whidbey Island to the coast of Washington State. His name is Paul and ...
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Summer snow

(Cont'd from  yesterday) To finish the story of Gloria, the little Ugandan girl who is the thief –turned-family-friend, there’s not ...
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For God so loved the world

(Cont’d from yesterday) … So after spending the night at the precinct, the girls’ families were found and informed of ...
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Jon’s underwear – gone

They were all missing … Liz’s swimsuit (they call them swim ‘costumes’ here), Jean’s shirts, Jon’s underwear and other things ...
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Birds, bees … rabbits

Really Dad, the birds and the bees? You told Jon about the birds and the bees? This is what Liz ...
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The ice house

I dreamed we had a series of skating rinks in our house. We can’t do that, my Bride said when ...
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