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Pacific Grits: Father's Day - A Brief History
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Better with butter and a little salt. Sunday, June 19, 2011. Father's Day - A Brief History. With Father's Day upon us it is important for fathers to remember how we, as an inferior societal subculture to mothers, got where we are. After all, Father's Day did not get off the ground until well after Mother's Day was established in the United States. Mart and Fred Meyer, grills began. Making a comeback in the mid-1990's. Father's Day became official in 1972, with a proclamation. Took me time to read all th...
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The Word of Todd: Movie Review: The Three Stooges Movie (2012)
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The Word of Todd. Live better. Love deeper. Laugh harder. Learn diligently. Leave the world better than you found it. Thursday, August 01, 2013. Movie Review: The Three Stooges Movie (2012). My review of the Three Stooges reboot can be summed up by a play on Curly's famous line, "Yuck, yuck, yuck! You don't reboot Pacino; he reboots you. Leave it alone! As for Moe, Larry, and Curly, the chemistry they created in 1925 has sustained itself for generations. The Farelly brothers took something legendary ...
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The Word of Todd: June 2013
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The Word of Todd. Live better. Love deeper. Laugh harder. Learn diligently. Leave the world better than you found it. Monday, June 17, 2013. Monday Meanderings For Your.Uh, Monday. I have never been very good at titles. As a writer, it is hard to publicly confess such a flaw. Even my sermon titles could use a little more zing. Sometimes it comes, sometimes I have to dig deeper and deeper until the "zing," ummmm. zings. See what I mean? As well as many other "how-to-get-wealthy" books. I had a dream o...
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The Word of Todd: April 2012
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The Word of Todd. Live better. Love deeper. Laugh harder. Learn diligently. Leave the world better than you found it. Friday, April 20, 2012. Facebook fast, Day 20. Has it already been 20 days? I have hardly noticed. I was tempted to get on this past week because I needed to reach a couple of folks to get their mailing addresses. It can wait 10 more days. I will also be resuming my own studies this summer. I am looking forward to it. Todd R. Vick. Friday, April 20, 2012. Labels: blah blah blah. I am miss...
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The Word of Todd: August 2013
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The Word of Todd. Live better. Love deeper. Laugh harder. Learn diligently. Leave the world better than you found it. Thursday, August 22, 2013. She announced to the world that she was alive! She has not slowed down since. Jenna was laid back, just taking it all in. They were premature, so they spent some time in the NICU. Jenna stayed two weeks; Katie stayed for a whole month. Their first year was filled with doctor visits, home heart monitors, and very little sleep. Todd R. Vick. The new movie started ...
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The Word of Todd: December 2012
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The Word of Todd. Live better. Love deeper. Laugh harder. Learn diligently. Leave the world better than you found it. Thursday, December 20, 2012. Whistling Tea Kettles and Popcorn. 8221; I had a PLAN! It was a brilliant plan. I couldn’t wait for fall to arrive so I could begin my studies at the University of South Carolina, which I was attending on, ahem, a FULL music scholarship. It was not an easy journey, me being stiff-necked and all, but it is a huge milestone for me. Yes, celebrate it! One week ag...
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The Word of Todd: December 2013
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The Word of Todd. Live better. Love deeper. Laugh harder. Learn diligently. Leave the world better than you found it. Friday, December 20, 2013. Bookends of Loss and Letting Go: My 2013 Perspective. Over the years, Pastor Don was there for me more times than I can count. It would take a lot of words to recount each time. Suffice it to say that for the eleven years that he was my pastor, he was a part of every significant moment of my life, the good ones and the not-so-good ones. Years later, I had the pr...
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The Word of Todd: At Times It Was Really Funny
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The Word of Todd. Live better. Love deeper. Laugh harder. Learn diligently. Leave the world better than you found it. Tuesday, January 15, 2013. At Times It Was Really Funny. Jay, Frog and Rickwell, 2006. Wherever Jay and I went, he was there. To be honest, I was a little annoyed at first! All because of this skinny kid with glasses from P.E. class. Rick was so much more to me. He was a steadfast friend. In nautical terms, he was my rudder. Rick was a forward-thinker. He didn’t think “out...Rick, my frie...
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The Word of Todd: February 2012
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The Word of Todd. Live better. Love deeper. Laugh harder. Learn diligently. Leave the world better than you found it. Thursday, February 23, 2012. Found an interesting article. Today It is short. Read it, and come right back. I will be here. Welcome back. Pretty thought provoking article, wasn't it? I thought so too. Lately, I have been spending more time than usual on Facebook. Too much? Who has time to help others? We have a church to grow.". God help us, before it is too late, to rise up and be what y...
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The Word of Todd: January 2014
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The Word of Todd. Live better. Love deeper. Laugh harder. Learn diligently. Leave the world better than you found it. Saturday, January 11, 2014. What #LivingLikeRick Has Taught Me. What I want to offer today are some of the lessons that #LivingLikeRick has taught me this year, and how I have tried to honor his memory the best way I can. 1) Genuinely sharing your faith doesn't always require words. 2) Always show up for things. 3) Pour yourself into others, and, when possible, do it over coffee. You bet&...