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TALK’n TROUBLE: June 21 – Father’s Day

Every year Father’s Day rolls around with a similar script: Dad unwraps golf clubs, tickets to a game, or fishing gear. Something that says: You deserve time for yourself. You deserve fun. You deserve a break. But when it comes back around to Mother’s Day, about a million new pots and pans are unwrapped beneath

TALK’n TROUBLE: Dads Make Great Allies

Ready for the ugly ties, silly T-shirts, and smarmy cards? Some of the stuff of Father’s Day hasn’t changed much but, fathers themselves have. Trouble believes that’s for the better. Some of us – perhaps older, and whiter – remember the old-school, Hallmark-standard image of a Father Knows Best-style dad in the media. We’re glad

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