28 Apr The Today Show Appearance
My wife and I appeared on "The Today Show" to talk about THE COUNCIL OF DADS with Matt Lauer. Check it out here....
25 Apr 6 Good Men: The Council of Dads Adds a New Twist to Friendship
From the New York Daily News. Bruce Feiler's twin daughters, Eden and Tybee, were 3 when he was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in 2008. Just days afterward, the best-selling Brooklyn author came up with the idea of asking six friends to look...
23 Apr King Tut: How’d You Get So Funky?
He came to power at age 9. Under the wing of powerful handlers, he overturned the changes of his father’s regime and restored the state religion. He died 10 years later after a mysterious accident that strongly suggests he had outlived his usefulness to his...
03 Apr Yay Daddy!!
The ongoing miracles of a rebuilt leg. Today I completed my first HOPSCOTCH in two years! Here was my reward from my daughters. ...
01 Apr Am I Really a Modern-Day “Danny Ocean?”
The first review of THE COUNCIL OF DADS thinks so. (And I think they mean it as a compliment.) From Hemispheres. BRUCE FEILER—whose books have recounted his adventures teaching in Japan, joining the circus and, in the best-selling Walking the Bible, retracing...
30 Mar It’s “Moses Week” in America
This Saturday, millions of Americans will watch the annual spectacle of Charlton Heston acting the part of a Cold War hero in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments." The TV air date is no accident. This week, beginning with Passover and ending with Easter, is...
29 Mar The Council of Dads USA Weekend Photo Shoot
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28 Mar Seder Talking Points: Seven Secrets of Passover
Passover is the national holiday of my in-laws. Every spring, my mother-in-law hosts 35 people on one night, and a different 35 people the second night for a ritualized retelling of the Israelites' escape from slavery in Egypt. But the centrality of this...
12 Mar When Daddy Is Gone
I just read a beautiful essay by Kevin Helliker about the cost of losing a parent on young children. Interesting stat: Four percent of children lose a parent before age 15, usually a dad. I was surprised that figure was so low....