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Boulder-Bots and Sewer Songs
After many parenting failures (such as this one and this one), I’m happy to be able to share a moment of parenting success — although, fair warning, this particular success involved a veritable...
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45rpm Vinyl Records: My First Music Memories
Music possesses the unique power to affect our moods and emotions. It can pump us up, soothe us, or make us melancholy, depending on the tempo, beat, rhythm, or instrumentation, as well as by the...
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On Losing Two Years Worth of Photos
— It all started when my wife noticed her cell phone had started overheating. Sometimes you’re lucky and it’s nothing more than an app going bonkers, but more often overheating means your phone has...
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Where Will Your Legacy Be When You’re Gone
— From community libraries to the personal photo albums and journals in your home, historical collections connect us to our past. These items, large or small, are representative of who we are as...
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Legacy of Art: Our Future
My Mom passed away peacefully on October 12, 2019. Mom was 89 years old. She passed away at a hospice following medical complications, in part due to her age. I spoke with her doctor about a week...
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A Great Holiday Can Make Your Family Unit Stronger
— A holiday is many things to us. It’s a change of scenery that refreshes our senses if we’ve grown jaded. It’s a change of pace that lets us recharge if we’re overworked or run down. It’s a break from...
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How to Make Great Memories With Your Family
— It’s not just women, men want to spend more time with their families too. In a study of 4,000 men across Europe, it was found that 58% of male breadwinners with children would take a pay cut to work...
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Family Reunions: A Sense of Legacy
DETROIT (July 14 and 15, 2017)—A smoky sizzle permeated the air as my cousin, Dana, manned the barbecue grill. She flipped burgers, hot dogs, and kabobs for hours at Belle Isle Park as descendants of...
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Living in the Moment
She asks, “Am I bothering you?” No one ever asks me that, and it throws me for a minute, but I smile and say, “No, of course not.” Her movements are slow, always a somber expression, unless she is...
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Embed from Getty Images — I was walking toward the beach the other day when I passed it in the window of a pawnshop. It was immediate nostalgia. I could almost smell the old school perfume emanating...
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Grandfatherhood
Embed from Getty Images — Q. My son’s wife is pregnant and I’m a little worried about becoming a grandfather. How will my new role change my life? How is being a grandfather different from being a...
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7 Lessons My Daughter Taught Me
— I grew up in a society that always had this idea boys should be celebrated more than girls. People tend to feel sorry for parents who have daughters only. I did too before my daughter, who is now...
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Summer is for Memories: Simple Ways to Bond With Your Kids
Embed from Getty Images — Ahhhh, summer. It’s a two-edged sword. It’s nice to finally be able to go outside without bundling yourself and the kids up in three layers of warm clothes. After a long...
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A Father’s Case for Facebook
Embed from Getty Images — In the spring of 1964 or so, Carl Rudolph Sanchez sat at the counter of a local burger joint eating some fries and shooting the breeze with some friends. Greased back hair, a...
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One Morning, Nine Years Ago
Embed from Getty Images I can’t help but wonder what it would have been like to grow up with a father beside me. __ by Maynor Galletan Arana A long time ago my family was involved in a lot of negative...
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3 Things I Wish I Had Done With My Dad
It’s easy to get caught up in caring for those whose time with us is precious, and fail to make the most of that time. — I am sitting in my favorite chair, listening to the birds chirping madly away in...
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Building Father-Child Memories That Last
Scott Behson spells out how parents can use the behavioral concept of the “availability bias” to help them build happy, lasting memories with their children. — If we want to be remembered as good...
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Stir-Fry Love: Cooking with Mom
The Wok With Mother’s Day approaching, Ryan Chin remembers cooking with his mother as he prepares a meal for his own family in her wok. I reach for a worn handle. The tapered wood, one inch in diameter...
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One Morning, Nine Years Ago
Embed from Getty Images I can’t help but wonder what it would have been like to grow up with a father beside me. __ by Maynor Galletan Arana A long time ago my family was involved in a lot of negative...
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3 Things I Wish I Had Done With My Dad
It’s easy to get caught up in caring for those whose time with us is precious, and fail to make the most of that time. — I am sitting in my favorite chair, listening to the birds chirping madly away in...
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