Test your trivia knowledge about the history of Independence Day with this fascinating video that’s bursting with a bunch of fun facts about our nation’s proudest and loudest holiday!
You’ve seen businesses get rebranded, but can you rebrand a person? A group of advertising experts give an ordinary old guy the full treatment with his own logo, jingle, redesign and tagline! But what will the focus group think of the new him?
- Larry Checco
It’s summer. I’m sitting on my front porch. The temperature is balmy, the sky cloudless. I can hear birds chirping in the trees. And I’m wondering: How did I get here? I mean really … here … at this very moment in time and space. Larry Checco toda…
- David Meeks
Our 4-year-old loves Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. This love grew because Cass found in our basement a DVD of Petty’s 30th anniversary concert, filmed in 2006 in Gainesville, Fla. Once I showed him the magic of this little disc – yes son, t…
- Larry Pollack
I was raised, like many boomer men, by a strong father, and that’s not bad. Strong didn’t mean abusive or mean. It meant persistent, driven, indefatigable. Giving up or admitting defeat was not who he was. At least publicly. I n…
- Robert Rector
When it comes to gift-giving, there’s nothing quite like Father’s Day. Who among us hasn’t feigned delight in presents like loud ties, funky slippers, power tools, nose hair trimmers, a copy of “Fatherhood for Dummies,” screwdriver sets…
- Manopause Team
Are you too old to have kids at 50? If Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro are doing it, so can you! You can consider becoming a father in your 50s if you want to. When you compare the biological clocks of men and women, men more than women, are perfectl…
- Gideon Meyer
Living in Africa is truly a blessing, with her diversity of wildlife all around us. But few people out there in the world know what we really have to contend with here in Africa. Our animals are not safe. Scores of them are killed illegally ever…
- Richard Basis
The concept of privacy appears to be disappearing from our society. Thanks to technology and stupidity we’ve all become more exposed than Anthony Weiner’s wiener. Ever since the book 1984 came out, we’ve been dreading a gove…
- Larry Pollack
ATTENTION GUYS: Send this article to everyone from whom you want a Father’s Day gift! Check out the cool stuff, and then let them make you happy! Tough year, no doubt about it. But Father’s Day can still be special! It’s th…
- Manopause Team
At the cusp of middle age, some things from your past seem to have latched on to you as belongings which are very difficult to let go of. These may be wildly inappropriate clothes for your age or a haircut which just does not do you justice once yo…
- Richard Basis
Have you ever noticed how our generation, and subsequent generations, just love to talk about ourselves? We seem to think that everything we do is fascinating to other people when, more often than not, it is not. Us baby boomers were once cal…
- Larry Checco
I keep telling my wife she’s the luckiest woman in the world and when she comes to that realization she’ll be a lot happier. Only kidding. After 40 years of marriage I think she’s pretty content. If hunkering down with your soulmate over the la…
- Shannon Taylor
Growing up, we all promise ourselves we will be NOTHING like our parents. We make mental notes of the way they discipline, the way they humiliate us, and the way they always have a lecture waiting for us in any given situation. I never thought t…
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Mike, Larry, David Meeks, and Marc Serota make the best of a quarantine Saturday night, drinking and shooting the bull about women, sports, and Marc’s jacuzzi bubbles, all on Zoom!
A special tribute to the fathers of America – dads, grandfathers, pack leaders, and more. We honor the living, and cherish the dearly departed. From our family, to yours!