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		<title>Hey, Where Did the Summer Go?</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2011/09/hey-where-did-the-summer-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 03:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of the summer. I don&#8217;t like being covered in sweat when I get to work. I don&#8217;t like being devoured by evil hungry mosquitoes. And I despise flying beetles sneaking into my home getting caught in my ceiling fan&#8217;s down draft and landing in my sleeping face. I also don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fatherdad&#8217;s Summer Round-up So Far&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AAD ON BOOKS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m not supporting public charter schools in the area of finance and accounting, building my non-profit (Black Dad Connection), publishing a book, designing a website, performing weddings, and just generally keeping busy as a father and husband I am, well, doing other things. For instance I read, play with toys, and generally don&#8217;t sleep. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF FATHERDAD.COM!</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2011/05/celebrating-5-years-of-fatherdad-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 12:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UNSOLICITED ADVICE & SUPPORT]]></category>
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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>APRIL 2011 REWIND&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2011/05/april-2011-rewind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 03:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LIFE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 2011 was one of those months that I can look back on and smile. It was filled with love, vindication, and fun. The love part was when I had the opportunity to preside over the nuptials of one of my oldest friends. It was a chilly Sunday morning, Palm Sunday to be exact, when [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://fatherdad.com/2010/11/and-so-it-begins-again-the-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<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>HAPPY SNOW DAY!</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2010/02/happy-snow-day/</link>
		<comments>http://fatherdad.com/2010/02/happy-snow-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[RANDOM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the snow comes on the perfect day, and today was that day. I was off work and the schools were closed. The wife is off on Fridays already, not that I&#8217;m jealous. We chilled out (literally and figuratively) and just enjoyed the perfect snow day.]]></description>
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		<title>INSPIRING DAD &#8211; LESSONS FROM THE PAST</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2010/02/inspiring-dad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was re-reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I had to pause to take a deep breath a time or two. Not because his letter was a tear jerker &#8211; it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s truth spoken to power and is not at all sentimental. The ideas from his letter that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY HOLIDAY MUSIC OBSESSION</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2009/11/my-holiday-music-obsession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AAD ON TV, MUSIC, MOVIES]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the beginning of October I have been listening to Christmas music. All kinds too &#8211; from Country and Metal to Soul and Hip-Hop and everything in between. It&#8217;s really absurd and now that I see the words in black and white, it&#8217;s also embarrassing. I need an ugly sweater and some felt reindeer antlers [...]]]></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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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m turning 30 in less than a week (yes, I&#8217;m obsessed). Still, I have no plans. I&#8217;ve been trying my darndest to get it together but I keep getting stuck between a rock and a hard place. The rock is Dev&#8217;s school. If we hang out on my b-day, which I have off from work, [...]]]></description>
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