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rina-macasaet's picture
Feb.11.2013
Just a few days to go before he turns 87, my father decides to call of his dinner celebration. He grumbles, “I’m not feeling well.” It’s long overdue, finally and inevitably he has to undergo a dialysis. It’s not the dialysis that’s worrying him but the whirling thoughts in his head that scare him...
cynthia-brian's picture
Dec.09.2011
    The Oprah of the Airwaves, Cynthia Brian and health professional, Heather Brittany bring you another power hour of edutainment on World Talk Radio. Listen live to the program every Thursday from 3-4pm PT broadcasting to 219 countries worldwide at http://www.voiceamerica.com/...
david-valdes-greenwood's picture
Sep.19.2011
I was terrible at science and math in school, and skipped out of so many courses in those fields that my left brain was practically wizened from lack of use by the time I graduated. And yet I feel perfectly qualified to comment on the latest buzzy scientific study: the one in which fatherhood is...
kristen-houghton's picture
Jun.20.2011
"Daughters see their self-worth in their fathers' eyes." So wrote an anonymous author from the 1920's. While not discounting a mother's strong influence, I find that statement to be completely true. Women become who they are because of how their fathers treated them and the women around...
sherrie-theriault's picture
Oct.25.2010
October 25     Behind Closed Doors     The children of happy fathers make no sense to me.  I have known no such peace.  What is it to live in a world where there is a man who likes you, someone who approves?  I feel like my chin would have always been out there to see, no...
catherine-nagle's picture
Nov.14.2008
“God Does it For Me... He uses my Hands” "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” (John 14:10)   The magnificent photograph of all the people sitting around and listening to Jesus is the beautiful artwork painted by my beloved father that once hung in the church reception...