Happy Non-Birth Parents Day

September 27, 2022

“Now, more than ever, we need good fathers….” So I wrote in my book Fatherhood: In Pieces. I continued: “… We need their courage and strength, their good…


My Personal Thanksgiving

November 29, 2020

I give up. I’ve been staring at a blank screen, hoping to point out the things that a bitterly divided nation can agree to be thankful for on…


Some may think it would have been nicer to wait until after the Coronavirus debacle was largely over before penning this on March 17, at the beginning of…


Fall

October 8, 2019

Fall Yes, Fall marks the end of the lazy days of Summer and is seen by some as an unwanted party crasher that spoils all the fun. Yet…


Father’s Day 2018

June 12, 2018

Another Father’s Day. Another opportunity to reflect on the national crisis of fatherlessness and the fallout we see all around us because too many kids go through life…


A Mother’s Day Reflection on Teamwork A fatherhood post just before Mother’s Day? Calendar malfunction? Gender confusion? Hardly. All around us are the commercial trappings of Mother’s Day:…


2018: Our Primary Task

February 28, 2018

The great anthropologist Margaret Meade once said: “The primary task of every civilization is to teach their young men to be fathers.” Pretty heady stuff. And how is…


Thanksgiving Day again lived up to its number one ranking on my holiday list. Binging on turkey, beer and football – what’s not to love? But between mouthfuls…