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		<title>CELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF FATHERDAD.COM!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 12:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago today I started this little blog. A lot has happened to me over the years since and many lessons have been learned. I can honestly say that I am a different person in the sense that I have grown up quite a bit, but I am still me. I can be no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I CAN DO MORE</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2011/02/i-can-do-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Black History Month comes to a close for the 35th time I am left reinvigorated. The family and I went to Washington DC last week for four days to see the sights. It&#8217;s one of those things that I always wanted to do but like so many things in my childhood it was just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PAIN OF PERFECTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard for me to be anyone but me. People have told me to tone it done in certain social situations and while my head agrees and knows that there are norms that should be generally followed it&#8217;s hard for me to do that. I feel this real compulsion to be me, and to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AND SO IT BEGINS AGAIN&#8230; THE HOLIDAYS!</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2010/11/and-so-it-begins-again-the-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had fun yesterday on Halloween with Dev. He dressed up as Michael Jackson from &#8220;Beat It Live in Bucharest,&#8221; showed some of his moves to strangers, then asked them for candy. But, let&#8217;s be real, Halloween is not a holiday. However it&#8217;s does seem to serve as the gateway to the real holiday season. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FATHERDAD.COM HAS TURNED 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 02:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time flies. I know it&#8217;s cliche to say that but it&#8217;s true. When I started this blog my son had just turned three. He was such a handful that I had to write about it. Now he&#8217;s seven, a handful in a much different way, and FatherDad is 4. Four years on the internet is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GO SON, IT&#8217;S YOUR BIRTHDAY!</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2009/04/go-son-its-your-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[years ago today my son debuted on planet earth (at the time he did sort of seem alien to me). And he&#8217;s been the most important noun in my life ever since. He challenges me to step up my game and be a better human being. Over the years his existence made me shift my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ME, ON DVD!</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2009/04/me-on-dvd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AAD ON TV, MUSIC, MOVIES]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just randomly (ok, not really!) searched for stumbled over this clip of me in the Being Dad USA DVD. Dev thinks I&#8217;m famous because of the film. I don&#8217;t have the heart to make him think otherwise.]]></description>
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		<title>THE BLACK DADDY LIST: IT&#8217;S ALL GOOD</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2009/04/the-black-daddy-list-its-all-good/</link>
		<comments>http://fatherdad.com/2009/04/the-black-daddy-list-its-all-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For 2009 I&#8217;m taking a break from &#8220;The Black [Dad] List,&#8221; mainly because it&#8217;s too negative. I haven&#8217;t totally abandoned the idea of negativity because I&#8217;m human and I have my moments, but I&#8217;d like to try to take positivity to a whole &#8220;nuva leva&#8221; this year. I&#8217;m enjoying the projects that I&#8217;m working on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOR OLD TIMES&#8217; SAKE</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2009/03/for-old-times-sake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t done this in a long time, but I thought this brief conversation I had this morning with my son was classic Dev: Dev: Daddy, do you know what Michael [not his real name] said to the teacher when she asked him to put his toys away? Dad: No, what did he say. Dev: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEAN PEOPLE</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2009/03/mean-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m tired of mean people. (I say &#8220;I think&#8221; because I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m mean people myself or not.) I don&#8217;t mind people who say or do mean things for the sake of comedy and to make others laugh. Heck, I&#8217;m one of those people. But what I&#8217;ve had enough of are [...]]]></description>
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