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In Memory of My Father
Last Tuesday, my father—a retired certified public accountant named Andrew—passed away after a long and torturous battle with emphysema. He was 79. To describe the experience of watching a man of his...
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Books for the Cool Dad in Your Life
Tomorrow marks my second official Father’s Day, but I’m counting it as the first, since all I can remember about last year’s was that it involved a colicky two-month-old screaming, screaming, and...
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11 Awesome Literary Quotations Celebrating Dads
Happy Father’s Day! Here are some profoundly moving literary and historical quotes celebrating, honoring, and remembering our fathers and some of their most sage advice. “I believe that what we become...
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7 Funny Books for Dad
I think many of us (long-suffering waitresses aside) will agree that dads can be pretty funny. And that humor, for better or for worse, is definitely absorbed by their young, impressionable kids. My...
View ArticleNew Biographies for Father’s Day
Biographies combine fascinating stories with the tantalizing possibility of understanding, just a little bit, what it might be like to walk in another person’s shoes. They also make foolproof gifts for...
View ArticleFiction for Father’s Day
Fathers often get short shrift when it comes to their big day. Mothers get flowers and breakfast in bed, gifts of jewelry, and sentimental greeting cards that make everyone tear up and hug each other....
View Article5 Hilarious Books About Fatherhood
While the jury is out on whether dad jokes are ever funny to anyone but the dad making them, we can all recognize how important it is for a father—facing down all the financial, physical, and emotional...
View Article6 Funny Books to Help Dad Up His Dad-Joke Game
So many men blossom when they become fathers—into wonderful, attentive parents, and also terrible, cringe-worthy joke-tellers. This phenomenon is well-documented (by me, in my head, every time a father...
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