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Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 9:55 am
December 2009 will be the last month for The Dads Center.  I began with an idea when I was going through my divorce in 2004 for this site and found that being a single dad was pretty demanding, but r...
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Giving Myself Permission To Be Me; What makes you happy?

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 8:14 am
I've been in research mode, reflection mode and healing mode the past few weeks (well, months.)  It's time for some changes in my life and I've been sorting through what they might be and...
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Product Bloggers Beware! New FTC disclosure requirements!

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 12:02 pm
Finally, something from the FTC requiring the disclosure of information when one is blogging about a product in exchange for something from that company.   From Mashable: FTC to Fine Bloggers up ...
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Engadget: 30% dropped iPhone calls normal; My solution is ...

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 11:09 am
... to me that AT&T had over extended its towers with the launch of the service.  When I went back to EDGE on my phone for making phone calls, the problem went away almost completely.  But here...
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I fell in love at the Apple Store. Too funny

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 10:02 am
This is funny. Get a Mac. Today. I know this feeling. My wife and I are both Macs.
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The Governator is also the Hotwaternator, Watch out kids

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 26, 2009, 2:09 pm
Kari and I have had a similar issue in our house.  We also have four bathrooms and two water heaters, so you can imagine how fast hot water still disappears.  Well, From the New York Times' Jenn...
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My fictional transcript of the president's call to the Polish president about missiles

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 19, 2009, 8:13 am
No transcripts have been released of the phone calls President Obama made to the Polish and Czech presidents at midnight this past week to tell them the news that he wasn't going with the Bush-era...
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New #EASACTIVE video, way cool

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 16, 2009, 6:11 pm
This made me smile.  I'm still down a lot of weight and as soon as I kick this diverticulitis, I'm back up early in the a.m. and turning fat to thin air. 
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On Blended Family Knees; Good shall overcome evil

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 16, 2009, 4:36 pm
Someone asked me the other day what my favorite step-family movie was.  My answer?  I don't know of one that accurately portrays what really happens when you try to mix the two.  Three and a ...
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GOP House members who voted YES to rebuke Joe Wilson

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 7:04 pm
Unbelievable.
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Using American Airlines Go-Go, Fighting Diverticulitis

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 6:07 pm
I'm trying out American Airlines GO-GO service for the first time.  Checking email, checking on my Tweeps, my Facebook friends, heck, I'm even waiting to see if Kari is freed up enough to log...
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The Arrangements, Mad Men Season 3 Thoughts

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 7, 2009, 4:16 pm
Kari and I faithfully watched Sunday night's "The Arrangements" episode of Mad Men and "My Old Kentucky Home," last week, and have really come away with a deeper interest in the show.  After wa...
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My Girls & I at The Dallas Museum of Art; I miss you, Gramps

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 7, 2009, 10:50 am
The girls and I went to The Dallas Museum of Art on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009.  It was the first time we'd been there together since the twins were very young; so young that we had a special escort...
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How Mesquite ISD is handling Obama TV message to kids

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 3, 2009, 3:09 pm
President Obama's Address to Students On Sept. 8, President Obama is scheduled to speak to school children across the United States through a webcast message produced in cooperation with the U.S. ...
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Why the Obama School TV MSG won't hurt your kids

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 3, 2009, 9:38 am
Why am I not opposed to kids in school seeing the president's message on Tuesday? Because, parents, in the long-term, you control whether or not the address to kids has an influence on your kids, ...
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Yosemite's Big Meadow Fire, @YosemiteBlog.com, Hard times for El Portal, CA

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Sep 2, 2009, 8:25 am
If you've ever been through El Portal, CA, you're lucky.  It's one of the last cities you pass through on an incredible ride up from Merced, CA on highway 140 to the west, rock gate of Yo...
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Judicial Liberty and Tyranny should be Levin's next book

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Aug 30, 2009, 9:53 am
The more I read Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny and the more I live my daily life, the more I see the man is right.  The rights of Americans are being taken.  We have runaway government.  We h...
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A beautiful Sunday a.m. in the Dallas area

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Aug 30, 2009, 7:52 am
It's beginning to feel like fall here in the Dallas area.  This morning, standing out in Kari's Paradise, (our backyard) the morning glories are open, pointing to the east.  The wind is blow...
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First Day of School, 2009-10 at our house

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Aug 24, 2009, 4:13 pm
Today was the first day of school for our kids in Texas.  Ashleigh, our five-year-old daughter has completed her first day of kindergarten. Kari and I began the new day with something new for us, t...
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Bridge Over Troubled Water Lyrics; soothing relief

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Aug 20, 2009, 5:28 pm
I needed to hear this song tonight.  And I played it.  Now it's your turn, in your time of need.  Thanks, Paul and Art. When youre weary, feeling small, When tears are in your eyes, I will dry...
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New telescopes lead to arugments of Gods' existence. What do you think?

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Aug 19, 2009, 10:38 am
Naturally, I have a curiosity about science and space and time.
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Silly Love Songs, or How Do You Sleep? Which type are you?

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Aug 18, 2009, 2:46 pm
One of my favorite public battles of wit involves the jabs exchanged between John Lennon and Paul McCartney, post Beatles. I forget who started it but at one point, on Imagine, Lennon was pissed at Mc...
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Dealing with Change; #MadMen, Mad Me, Mad World

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 9:37 am
It became clear from watching last night's first episode of Mad Men Season 3, that this year's 13 episodes are going to be about how people deal with change.  We saw the introduction of new c...
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Man Men Season 3 Opening Show

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Aug 16, 2009, 10:13 pm
I've seen through Twitter that some are disappointed by the first show.  I'm not one of them. There were interesting new themes.  The whole Brits in the office component.  The firing of t...
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Mad Men Season 3 Begins....

Daddy Claxton posted an article on - Aug 16, 2009, 7:59 pm
Welcome, we are excited that you're joining us for the Season 3 Premier of Mad Men.  Mad Men 3 Launch
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I'm a dad with seven kids, learning every day from the lessons of life and trying to apply them to my life the next day.

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