EXAMPLE ONE — A study published last year in the Journal of Marriage and Family by sociologist Rin Reczek and colleagues suggests that 26% of fathers experience a period of estrangement from their adult children at some point, four times…

Carrie Cariello says so much so well…for example — A father’s grief is often after-hours. It is a when-everyone-is-asleep-and-it’s-quiet kind of thing. It is private, and perhaps lonely. You wipe your tears in the dark. — And I don’t need…

John Thomas Vidakovich, or Johnny Vee, and I go back a long way with many astonishing overlaps before we’d ever even met. He wrote this and shared this picture earlier today, and it’s with his graciously expressed permission that I…

My “former youth group guy, Jamey Garner,” who is now a major label songwriter, singer and musician, wrote the following about his father, Terry Garner, as we were preparing for Terry’s funeral in February. He has graciously given me his…

“And then I’ll be dead. “I’ll never squeeze enough out of this life because time is rushing like a high-speed train I can’t stop.  “That was my life-is-short logic loop. And I got stuck in it.” SOURCE: