It's always been my belief that the greatest gift a Dad can give his children is to love their Mom.......... At a time when over 50% of marriages end in divorce this concept is understandably tough for a lot of Dads to grasp, but it has always worked for me. [...]
Today is the birthday of Steve Jobs, born in San Francisco (1955) to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who placed him for adoption. Clara and Paul Jobs, an accountant and a machinist, adopted him when he was still a baby. Growing up, Jobs and his father would tinker [...]
As we were growing up in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, by brother Verne & I would blow off the effect any names our friends called us by saying, "Sticks & stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me." More often than not, Verne would then add, "When [...]
What matters & what doesn't? Is it "Dad's way, or the highway?" Or, as dads, do we plant the seed in the minds of our children what we learned from Henry Ford, Sr. when he said, "If we believe we can, or believe we can't, we're 100% right." Well, for [...]
During the final five days of my father’s life, I slept on a cot next to him, and cared for him throughout the day and night. On his final night, as I was helping Dad get settled back into his own bed after a 2:30 AM visit to the bathroom, [...]
Now that it's officially 2012 every Dad should take some time to think about what he can do in 2012 that really matters. The Lord's Prayer tells us to forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us……… Unconditional forgiveness has no strings attached. Sometimes, that can [...]
The Chief Engineer is not typically a super tanker ship's officer you would expect to find sobbing hysterically on deck at the ship's loading port in the Persian Gulf. Everyone has the highest respect for the Chief because it's up to the person who holds that title to make certain [...]
On March 28, 1986 not far from Shea Stadium a baby girl was born in Yonkers, NY. Her name was Joanne Stefani Germanotte. Across the Hudson River in North Jersey seven year old Tommy Riles was reading as he did every morning before school about his heroes the New York [...]