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Some advice for fathers from - of all people - Karl Barth WHEN MY CHILDREN were little, not a month went by when my wife and I didn't get the letter from our kids' school: \"Your child has been exposed to head lice.\" Even the best parents stumble under the load. Because we love our children, we can't accept futility and we burn with resentment instead. The few parenting books I've read aren't much better. An occasional solar eclipse is remarkable. A daily solar eclipse is disastrous.
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Life is a marathon : a memoir of love and endurance
\"Step after step for 26.2 miles, hundreds of thousands of people run marathons. But why--what compels people past pain, lost toenails, 5.30 am start times, The Wall? Sports writer Matt Fitzgerald set out to run eight marathons in eight weeks across the country to answer that question. At each race, he meets an array of runners, from first timers, to dad-daughter teams and spouses, to people who'd been running for decades, and asks them what keeps them running. But there is another deeply personal part to Matt's journey: his own relationship to the sport--and how it helped him overcome his own struggles and cope with his wife Nataki's severe bipolar disorder.\"--Amazon.com
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Diet cults : the surprising fallacy at the core of nutrition fads and a guide to healthy eating for the rest of us
From the raw food movement to Atkins, an ever-increasing number of health and weight-loss diets are engaged in an overheated struggle for new converts. But underneath such differences, author Fitzgerald observes, these disparate groups all agree on one thing: that there is only \"One True Way\" to eat. The first clue that this is untrue is the sheer variety of diets. Indeed, while all of these competing \"diet cults\" claim to be backed by science, a good look at actual nutritional science suggests that there is no single best way to eat. What makes us human is our ability to eat -- and enjoy -- a wide variety of foods. The appeal of diet cults is their power to offer a food-based identity to latch onto, yet many more of us are turned off by their arbitrary rules. Fitzgerald offers an alternative: an \"agnostic,\" reasonable approach to healthy eating that is flexible enough to accommodate a wide range of personal preferences and lifestyles.
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A good and unexpected read
The truth is, most books that are widely reviewed wind up at the thrift store. Did a subconscious reaction to the first wave of political correctness make my friends identify with the idiot masculinity Buford writes about? Dear Otto and Rachel, I found the enclosed book on sharks among your dad's books in the closet on the third floor, where I was keeping the Archie comics and Ginny dolls. The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland: Volume II is an encyclopedic list of forgotten games like \"Wink Egg: When a nest is found an egg is placed on the ground, and a boy goes back three paces from it, holding a stick in his hand; he is then blindfolded, takes two paces toward the egg and strikes a blow on the ground with the stick-the object being to break the egg.
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