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Alex BeckettNov 16, 20152 min read

Just Something I Came Across

Children and their parents process the recent events in Paris. Video interviews in French by Le Petit Journal. Transcribed and translated somewhat inexpertly by me.

“What’s your name?”

Lon Shapiro in The CoffeeliciousMar 193 min read

When life imitates art

ARE THE COEN BROTHERS EAVESDROPPING ON ALL OF US?

Nancy W. LowMar 5

To the child who gets my little brother’s heart

Jason Longhurst

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Peace to you and your family. Thank you for sharing this with us. I was deeply saddened when I heard this on the news as I was just a few blocks away on my way to work…beautiful perspective. It’s clear happiness runs in your family deep and eternally.

Brian LuckFeb 52 min read

The Day I Lost My Hero

Growing up, there was always one person whom I looked to for guidance. He got me involved in Little League sports, he took me to all sorts of sporting events, he even coached me on a couple of teams. We shared our passion for sports. This person was my father. A few years ago I received a…

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Daniel Bower in Hoop RollingFeb 23 min read

Hoop Goes London Wide

When we first started working on Hoop we were keen to launch in a small area so we could test our belief: that families…

freehippiegirl in Grenzen LosDec 29, 20151 min read

Grenzenlos. #1

Dieses Jahr war ein besonderes Jahr für uns, weil wir das erste Mal verreist sind. Mit einer Behinderung im Gepäck ist das ja nicht immer so easy, aber trotz aller Anstrengungen hat es sich sehr gelohnt und Junior hat seitdem gefühlte hundert Schritte vorwärts gemacht.

Nancy W. LowFeb 225 min read

Happiness Runs In Our Family

Many years ago — early 1990’s, I was watching an episode of The Oprah Show. (Source of all knowledge , wisdom and good will next to God) Oprah had a guest on that day, an older woman with vast wisdom and success as a poet. Turns out it was Maya Angelou- whom I had never heard of…

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freehippiegirl in Grenzen LosJan 181 min read

Mut

Mutig sein, ist wie eine Schlittenfahrt. Vorsichtig an den Berg rantasten, probieren wie glatt es ist. Kann ich mit meinen Schuhen abbremsen? Kann ich…

MelanieFeb 11

Stop Saying We Should Have Parental Leave Because Babies Need their Mothers at Home

Mirah Curzer

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This is what I like about Bernie Sanders on this platform. I can think of a dozen ways how this is important to families. That is a fact. The gender is not more important but the welfare and health of the family unit is.

Solitary CookDec 6, 2015

My dad’s sudden passing felt like the sky falling down.

Kyle Freeman

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Do you know of or remember the TV show Mash? When the father of Alan Alda’s character, Hawkeye Pierce dies, his fellow physician/soldier, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III played by David Ogden Pierce, remarks, “I had a father; you had a Dad.”

I, too, had a father; you had a dad. Lucky, lucky you.