Monthly Archives: October 2008

To Charlie On His Fifth Birthday

October 27, 2008
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My Dear Son Charlie, As is the yearly custom, I’m stunned once again that you are now another year older. I can’t believe that you are Five. It only seems a second ago that I could practically hold all of you in one hand. You have matured in so many ways this past year. Your…

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The Upside of a Downturn

October 10, 2008
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At the children’s service yesterday for Yom Kippur, the rabbi asked kids in the audience to share what their hopes might be for the new year. My elder son, Charlie, held up his hand and the microphone was brought to him. “When we’re in the store, I hope that the prices of things are less,”…

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Couldn’t Have Said It Better Than Jeremy At Daddy Dialectic

October 7, 2008
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Jeremy over at Daddy Dialectic has mentioned in the past how we seem to have a very similar world view when it comes to fatherhood and I have to concur. Please read these two great entries he’s put out in the past few weeks: the first about how he feels about the current state of…

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