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- Tom Lashnits
We were at a wedding reception recently and sat down with another couple from our old hometown in Westchester. We knew them, but not too well. They are a few years younger than we are, and they live in a big house in one of the pricier neighborhoo…
- Larry Pollack
If you haven’t seen “Hamilton” yet, you will have the chance on July 3 on Disney plus. I was honored to have seen it at the Richard Rogers Theatre on Broadway with the original cast, and it changed my perspective on both Bro…
- Richard Basis
Raising children is not for everyone. Take it from someone who has absolutely no experience in these matters. I have no children of my own (that I know of) primarily because I never had the desire. Yet, I am constantly being reminded of all the…
- Manopause Team
So your wife’s birthday is right around the corner and you can’t think of the perfect present. There’s a lot of pressure here. You don’t want to screw this one up. Between all the occasions you’ve forgotten and all…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Richard Basis
If cleanliness is next to Godliness then my mother, Muriel, is up in Heaven sitting in God’s lap. I know that most mothers nag their children to clean up their rooms, but mine took it to a whole other level. Let me give you just a few examples, and…
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