Dads and fatherhood

LONG BEACH, Calif. (CitizenWire) — Families Uniting Families will be extending an invitation to those in the community to join in a “Family Game Night” on March 24, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at their offices in St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, located at 525 E. 7th Street, Long Beach, CA, 90813. The “Family Game Night” is an opportunity to meet the staff and participants in a safe environment where the group will promote “family together time” through a variety of physical games and play...Read Full Story

85 Years and Still Going Strong! 85 years ago today,  June 7th in 1926, a baby boy was born to a family in the city of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He was fourth in the family, joining three sisters, a mom and a dad.  Three years later his youngest sister was born and the family was complete. He was named Ralph Edward Brown and he is our father and grandfather. His mother, the original Annie Hall, struggled to nurse him. He seemed unable to take either breast milk or regular formula and almost...Read Full Story

This weekend will mark my third Father’s Day as a dad and in a relatively a short amount of time I’ve gone from no kids to one kid to two kids.  Parenthood has been great, amazing, exhausting, stressful, fun, expensive … you name it. Heck, can something be described as poopy? Because if something can be described as poopy I’ll say that parenthood has also been thoroughly poopy.  I won’t go into details, but it’s amazing/terrifying to see how much poop these cute little buggers can crank out...Read Full Story

Today is a guest post written by my  son Micah on Father’s Day. I hope you enjoy this personal reflection on his faith and his father. As always, thanks for reading! Dancing Dad Someone once told me that a person’s conception of God is shaped by who his or her father was during childhood. An authoritarian father paves the way for a legalistic view of God and His law. A father who protects prepares his children to trust their heavenly father, even when stepping out in faith. Perhaps an absent...Read Full Story

Microsoft has today unveiled its latest innovation for the XBox, a 'virtual human' that can react to a person's emotions, body movements and voice. A groundbreaking and almost unbelievable piece of futuristic software that's fit for any time-travelling movie, Microsoft are set to make countless millions from it. One tiny problem, however, is that this could be just the thing that's needed to turn a planet of already obese, computer-addicted children into total Microsoft zombies who prefer to...Read Full Story