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	<description>One good black father among many... Tackling fatherhood and loving (almost) every minute!</description>
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		<title>HAPPY NEW YEAR!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m late! I&#8217;m just keeping it real and keeping it busy. And keeping it real busy. I have a new post about injustice (some light reading) up at my other non-profit blog. Please support and link and all that other stuff! Click here to read.]]></description>
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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>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>
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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>YOU CAN WIN</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2011/03/you-can-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason Charlie Sheen thinks he is winning. It&#8217;s one of his catch phrases after all. Sure he&#8217;s rich and famous but he&#8217;s also fired, and kind of a jerk. Sadly he&#8217;s in denial about his seriously deep issues. In my book he&#8217;s losing. He&#8217;s losing big. He&#8217;s a dad and he needs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PAIN OF PERFECTION</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2011/02/the-pain-of-perfection/</link>
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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>MLK &amp; THE REGULAR PEOPLE</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2011/01/mlk-the-regular-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year around this time I say something about my personal hero, Rev. Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. This year is no exception. Of all the people I admire and respect in this world he is the one who has stayed consistent. Of course part of the reason for this is that his greatness has remained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I BELIEVE&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2010/12/i-believe/</link>
		<comments>http://fatherdad.com/2010/12/i-believe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[THE COACH]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That most people want to be happy but just don&#8217;t know how. In many ways it&#8217;s a life-long journey. But you have to want to take the journey and know what it looks like when you arrive at certain milestones along the way. That&#8217;s the hard part. Being a jerk is beyond easy. Sure it [...]]]></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>RANDOM? NOT HARDLY.</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2010/10/random-not-hardly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a young man growing up in 90s Bed-Stuy Brooklyn there were certain things that I eventually grew accustomed to. There was the sound of gunshots in the night. Long hot summers where anything was possible, and violence was inevitable. Conversations that began with &#8220;Yo, did you hear about&#8230;&#8221; And being searched by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HALLOWEEN STILL ROCKS</title>
		<link>http://fatherdad.com/2010/10/halloween-still-rocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Christmas holiday season starting earlier and earlier each year it&#8217;s getting increasingly challenging to get into Halloween spirit. The other day I went to my favorite local variety store to grab some Halloween creepiness for the house and what I found was quite amusing. My decorations section was filled with the joy of [...]]]></description>
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