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Black Belt Strong: How Kids Benefit From Martial Arts Training
Another candidate for post title: “How My Kids Can Now Kick Their Father’s Ass”. Yeah, that’s funny. But the truth is, a martial arts black belt (in this case, tae kwon do) is less about “kicking ass”...
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A Father And Son, A Perfect Swing
As father – son baseball moments go, we have one that may stand the test of time, ranking right up there with Kevin Costner as the fictional Ray Kinsella, playing catch with his ghostly father with a...
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The Fire And The Freedom: A Guest Post
I’m 48 years old. Suddenly my life is flying by at hyper speed. When I was a boy, then a teenager, the days, the weeks, the months were long. Summers spent playing ball and hanging out with friends...
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What Do You Believe In?
My eleven year old son lost a tooth the other night in what has been a succession of lost teeth over the last few weeks. The only difference with this one is the tooth fairy forgot to slip some money...
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So This Is Christmas…
So this is Christmas, and what have you done, another year over, a new one just begun. And so this is Christmas, I hope you have fun, the near and the dear ones, the old and the young. A very merry...
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Growin’ Up – Giving A Stiff Arm To The Face of Life
When you become a new, fresh faced father pacing around the floor in a hospital room, holding your newborn baby in your arms, you have no idea what will happen next. You have no idea how fast time will...
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Cruel Summer, With A Life Lesson To Take To The Bank
When I was a boy, the summers seemed to stretch for miles, go on forever. I would look for salamanders, play hours of basketball, and walk over country roads to see my friends. I would jam out to...
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Turning 50 Edition – Just A Number
California Dreamin’ – finally Last week, I turned the big five-oh. 50 years old. In preparation for this monumental event, I needed to go to my local DMV to renew my driver’s license. The clerk who...
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Chasing Your Version Of “The American Dream”
The American Dream is dead. At least, that’s what I’ve heard. From the perceived obscenity of high fuel prices to a “can’t shake it” unemployment percentage plaguing our country, it’s been said over...
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Blowing Up The Fallacy Of The “American Dream”– Old School Style
Our nation has a happiness fetish…much of economic misery we see today is due to the unbridled pursuit of bigger houses, fancier cars, and more exorbitant trips. The lure of consumer culture and an...
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