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...hour drive away. Then it was the U.S. Senate. There was the campaign in between there. The U.S. Senate is in Washington, D.C. - well, I'm telling you the obvious - and on and on and on. It's been all of their lives that it's rare to have Dad at home for dinner, to see him in the mornings before you go to school, to have him there when you go to bed at night, to just be able to have the casual conversations that happen about life at dinnertime...
...show with the most explicit cultural politics is 18 Kids, whose Duggars espouse a pro-life, Evangelical Christianity. (The dad, Jim-Bob, was an Arkansas legislator and ran for Senate in 2002.) They homeschool, reject evolution and eschew pop culture--except Today show visits and their series--and when the kids watch a DVD, an elder daughter puts a hand on the screen to hide a character's immodest dress. Watching Jim-Bob criticize Hollywood moviemaking--"It might make money for companies, but it's not good for individuals"--you're staring at the strange no-man's-land where...
...there's much to identify with, even for a godless dad like me. That's refreshing, when so much of politics divides people on family values. I may not share the Duggars' worldview--or the Hayeses' or the Gosselins'--but I share their job: creating a small, functional community. Or in their case, a large one. It takes a village to raise a child, they say. But how many of us have the guts to raise a village...
...stay. If you want to bring the whole family along, up to five people can book a suite starting at $1,500 per night, and, with stays of four nights or more, you'll get complimentary breakfast every day, three family dinners and a date night for Mom and Dad, complete with free babysitting service. 72-100 Ka'upulehu Drive, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii...
...Every year, Walter Gretzky (Wayne's dad) hosts a street hockey tournament in his hometown of Brantford, Ontario. After learning about it, I mused about the idea of playing in the tourney, in a podcast and on the message board at my website. All of a sudden, other dudes like me - old, out-of-shape, unathletic, with more body fat than bone - started dreaming they, too, could forecheck it up the slot and slap themselves some middle-aged glory one last time ... in the hometown of the Great One, no less...