Barney is never wrong and always legend...wait for it...dary.

I've started this comment at least a dozen times, yet the words escape me. Just know that I'm thinking of you and that I hope that the clarity you need comes with some expedience; that one day soon your whole family is together somehow, somewhere, someway.

I totally agree with the points you made, but I'd pay good money for the Oracle of Omaha to use the shizzle or nizzle in an interview, such as "The hizzle needs to get its shizzle together and raise the debt ceiling, my nizzle". That would be priceless.

That would be either guy's most or least favorite session at Dad 2.0, but regardless it is sure to be the most awkward. :)
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Absolutely loved that SNL spoof. That could be dissected for days.
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I totally agree with you. I'm glad we didn't just lob missiles into the compound, see what happened and hoped we got him. Clinton made that mistake after the Cole bombing and don't even get me started about what the Bush administration did. The surgical strike with the SEAL team was a much greater risk, but as you said the way in which it was handled - carefully, deliberately, methodically - was the key to its success.
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We all deal with situations in different ways. Some chose jubilation and celebration, chants of USA and lighting of cigars. Others chose more restraint. Then there were people like me that were cracking jokes on Twitter because, well, that is how I cope.

The death of Bin Laden provides some measure of closure to the awful events of 9/11. I lost a few friends in the attack and will never forget where I was that morning - in the waiting room at my doctors office for an examination because I had cancer scare that thankfully turned out to be nothing. While I understand the people that chose to be restrained (even those that would chastise others fake morality quotes and all), but I chose to celebrate the moment.

Not celebrate the death of a human being (and one could argue that Bin Laden wasn't human, but the embodiment of pure evil), but celebrate what I hope will bring a new era where those that seek to advance their ideology through the use of terrorism will think twice about taking action against our country thanks to the brave men and women who take up arms to defend it.
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"This changes everything, again!" Please God tell me that's not the slogan for Dad 2.0. Well done, my liver will take three days to recover from thinking about this post.
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I've been pre-salting my meat (or dry brining as some are calling it) since I read an LA Times article on the perfect Thanksgiving Day turkey a few years ago. It truly is a simple step that produces amazing results.

To me, the opportunity for dads isn't necessarily with brands like the moms. Sure, there will be a few dad bloggers that get some lucrative, well paying gigs with brands to produce content for them and the like. However, those dads that are truly in this to develop a career, or a solid secondary stream of income, will find ways to apply the knowledge gleaned from blogging to outside opportunities, which appears to be the best way to generate positive cash flow.

However, there are risks to this strategy. Initially I blogged for myself and to connect with other dads. As the dad bloggers began to gain attention I started getting some opportunities I couldn't pass up (read: paid, and reasonably well at that), especially food related ones because that's what I do. Unfortunately, it seems to have changed the complexion of my blog's content. Part of it is definitely my fault. Between these opportunities, some client work I've been fortunate to come across and the birth of our daughter I've had less time/energy to blog about dad/parenting related things. Page views and subscribers have been up, but engagement is way down - almost nonexistent. And since, in my opinion, that is the mark of a successful blog, I'm failing miserably. I haven't been very good reciprocating with other bloggers by commenting, I've been blog stalking for the most part.

I'm to the point that when I've fulfilled my commitments to a few brands I think I may be shutting things down. I have lots of things I'd like to write about, but half of them wind up being half baked ideas that I never get around to completing. I'm not a parenting expert (nor do I wanted to purport myself to be one) and I'm not good enough a writer to do more of the creative pieces like you. I'm thankful for the opportunities I've had outside of my blog and maybe I've come to that proverbial fork in the road where my blogging life has gotten too far away from its original intended purpose.
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