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Manhood

  • Lessons in Manliness from It’s a Wonderful Life
  • Fathers Are Not Mothers to Their Daughters 
  • Real Fathering and the Glue that Holds Families Together | National Center for Fathering
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Marriage

  • Married Young, and Never Giving Up – NYTimes.com
  • 5 Ways You May Be Unwittingly Torpedoing Your Marriage | Darryl A. Cobbin
  • Clinging to Each Other, We Survived the Storm of Losing a Child – NYTimes.com
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Raising Kids

  • 10 Things Your Kids Should Look for in a Friend | All Pro Dad
  • Socioeconomic Factors Determine Kids Success | Mail Online
  • 5 Ways My Dad Taught Me What It’s All About 
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Thought Provoking

  • The surprising truth about what motivates us

Laugh a Little

  • Make love, not war, or do both: get married.

Can you Handle the Truth?

  • Marriage Success ( A Love Story 5) – Bishop T.D. Jakes – YouTube

Discuss with Your Kids

  • Who Made That Planetarium? – NYTimes.com
  • Nick Cardy, 92-Year-Old Comic Artist, Sketched His Time As A WWII Soldier
  • Facts on Young Men’s Sexual Behavior

Must Read Books

  • Best CBD for Sleep
  • Raising a Modern Day Knight
  • The Book of Man - Readings on the path to manhood
  • The Time Chart History of the World
  • Wild at Heart

No Time to Read? Book Outlines

  • The Apprenticeship of Being Human: Why Early Parenting Matters To Everyone by Graham Scharf
  • Out of Control – Finding peace for the Physically Exhausted and Spiritually Strung Out by Ben Young and Dr. Samuel Adams
  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, A practical guide from the country’s foremost relationship expert by John M. Gottman, PH.D. and Nancy Silver

Africa

  • Ivory Wars – National Geographic Magazine
  • African Masks – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine
  • Black Pharaohs – National Geographic Magazine
  • Inside the Global Industry That’s Slaughtering Africa’s Elephants – Atlantic Mobile
  • Malaria – National Geographic Magazine

Civil War

  • Civil War Battlefield Art – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine
  • Civil War Battlefields – National Geographic Magazine
  • Savannah, Both Sides – NYTimes.com
  • Civil War Road Trips
  • Book Review: Douglas R. Egerton’s ‘Wars of Reconstruction’ – NYTimes.com

France

  • Paris Urban Downtime – National Geographic Magazine
  • Reflections on a Paris Left Behind – NYTimes.com
  • Vintage Paris Photos Take Us Back In Time On Travel Tuesday
  • The Fall of France
  • Let your child be the guide in Paris

Italy

  • Brunelleschi’s Dome
  • ‘Acqua Alta’ Flooding Returns To Venice, Leaves Tourists Wading
  • Rome’s Ruins – National Geographic Magazine
  • Vanishing Venice — National Geographic Magazine
  • In Venice, Navigating Like a Native – NYTimes.com

Williamsburg

  • How Much Do We Really Know About Pocahontas | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine
  • New World – National Geographic Magazine
  • Jamestown – National Geographic Magazine
  • Jamestown – National Geographic Magazine

Travel

  • Pricey Homes in London
  • Madeline in New York
  • Book Review: ‘The Wind Is Not a River,’ by Brian Payton – NYTimes.com Unknown war in Alaska
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Alaska

  • Book Review: ‘The Wind Is Not a River,’ by Brian Payton – NYTimes.com Unknown war in Alaska
  • Alaska’s North Slope – National Geographic Magazine
  • Andrew Skurka Alaska Yukon Trek – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine

Egypt

  • Cleopatra – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine
  • Nile Journey – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine
  • King Tut’s Family Secrets – National Geographic Magazine

Hawaii

  • 10 Things to Know About Visiting the Big Island 
  • Hawaii’s Unearthly Worms – National Geographic Magazine

New York

  • New York’s High Line – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine
  • Take your child to NY and have fun!
  • Before New York — National Geographic Magazine
  • Madeline in New York
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