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		<title>FATHERDAD.COM HAS TURNED 4</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2010/05/fatherdad-com-has-turned-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 02:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AAD ON RACE]]></category>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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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.

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[THE BLACK DADDY LIST]]></category>
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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: Let me tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEAN PEOPLE</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2009/03/mean-people/</link>
		<comments>http://fatherdad.com/2009/03/mean-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I JUST HAD TO MENTION]]></category>
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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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		<title>HAPPY BIRTHDAY&#8230; TO ME!</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2009/02/happy-birthday-to-me/</link>
		<comments>http://fatherdad.com/2009/02/happy-birthday-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AAD ON MOTHERS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fatherdad.com/?p=428</guid>
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I made it. It&#8217;s 12:00 midnight in my part of the world and I have not turned into a pumpkin. Today I make history &#8211; it is the first official time that I will turn 30. I plan on turning 30 every year for the next ten years, so the first one seems significant. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NO PLANS YET</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2009/02/no-plans-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://fatherdad.com/2009/02/no-plans-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fatherdad.com/?p=417</guid>
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		<title>APPARENTLY I&#8217;VE CHANGED</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2009/02/apparently-ive-changed/</link>
		<comments>http://fatherdad.com/2009/02/apparently-ive-changed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fatherdad.com/?p=382</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Change is good, so they say. &#8220;Things done changed,&#8221; as Biggie once stated. Yet the most accurate quote about change I can think of is probably the now cliche statement &#8220;a baby changes everything.&#8221; No, the wife is not preggers again (not that there would be anything wrong with that). I&#8217;ve just been thinking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>29 to 30</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2009/01/29-to-30/</link>
		<comments>http://fatherdad.com/2009/01/29-to-30/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m counting down to the bitter-sweet (mostly sweet for the obvious &#8220;I&#8217;m alive&#8221; reasons) big day: my 30th. I have no plans for the milestone even though I&#8217;ve been talking about turning 30 since I turned 29. 
I have spent many hours over the past few months thinking back to my youth and trying to [...]]]></description>
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