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            A   Bad Combo Adding Insult to Injury on Father's Day?                               Happy golfers on Fathers Day  until . . . . . . Discovering the Summer Solstice falls on this Fathers Day AND US Open final round! Father’s Day and the summer solstice, on the same damn day!? I wonder if there is a hidden message or meaning to this  . . . "coincidence." Everyone knows that Father’s Day is the least important of the many made-up holidays. Don't believe me? Then how come all the FD greeting cards say, "Dear Dad . . . Who Cares, LMAO!” Also, you can count on one hand the number of times you see a kid waving and yelling “Hi dad” on tv, it’s always “Hi mom!” And that’s okay, moms deserve it. Besides, that’s the way it should be, dads are meant to toil in familial obscurity. We can’t compete with a mother’s love so all we can do is try to compete with brute...

  Dear Prudence 2013 - New puppy in the house You might remember that we lost our puppy a few months ago.  Most people who own a pet, and especially dog owners, can vouch for the pain of losing them. It truly sucks. Time has passed and the pain, while still lurking, has lessened enough that I thought I might offer a eulogy of sorts for our  special girl  and perhaps an ode to pets in general. It seems the least I can do.  We have lost other dogs before Prudence and it is always painful. It’s just that we had her for much longer and had many more adventures with her so this doubly hurt. Never owned a cat, never owned a gerbil, never owned fish; never owned anything but a dog. I assume there is some connection with those pets as well but I can only say that if that connection is anything like the one with a dog well then, I feel sorry for those owner’s loss too. Prudie and her niece Lucy Pru, like her little predecessor Penny Lane, was a Cavalier King Charles Sp...