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Finding your life lesson

October 5, 2016 By Carol Cassara 27 Comments

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One of the most beautiful songs of my generation is Cat Stevens' Father and Son. i had a difficult relationship with my father, especially as an adolescent and so when that song came out in 1970 on his album Tea for the Tillerman, it really struck a chord. I have at least one male friend for whom . . .

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Filed Under: Soul School Tagged With: Fathers, Inspiration, Life Lessons

What can parents do about mean girls?

April 22, 2015 By Carol Cassara 31 Comments

This began as a post about saying goodbye and then morphed into one about mean girls. I don't think that's an accident. The stories in Dumped, Women Unfriending Women continue to swirl around in my head, along with so many questions that don't have good answers. When grown women are mean to one . . .

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, Family, Fathers, Mothers, Parenting

Healing the father-daughter relationship

May 27, 2014 By Carol Cassara 52 Comments

Those who knew me growing up also knew the contentious relationship I had with my father. His role was to guide me with an iron fist and I fought him tooth and nail, passively and aggressively. The day I walked down the aisle with M my father grinned ear-to-ear. I always believed behind that smile . . .

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, Family, Fathers, Life Lessons, Relationships, Writing

Family pictures: “if only we knew what was ahead….”

October 29, 2013 By Carol Cassara 23 Comments

Do you ever look at old family pictures and wonder at the innocence they portray? How we knew nothing of the life that was to unfold? How each decision we made took us in one direction or another, and that direction completely changed what might have been another outcome? Do you look into your own . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Trippin' Tagged With: Art, Blog, Entertainment, Family, Fathers, Grandparents, Mothers, My Family, New York, Photography, Rochester, Rochester New York, United States

A father’s apology from the other side

June 16, 2013 By Carol Cassara 16 Comments

Despite this happy little picture, my father would never have won a Father of the Year contest. I remember what a challenge finding the right card was at Father's Day, because none of the mushy sentiments fit. I didn't think my father was a great dad and back in the day, there weren't less . . .

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Faith, Family, Fathers, Life Lessons

About therapy

May 31, 2013 By Carol Cassara 3 Comments

No, it's not Christmas or even close to that holiday. But it's come to my attention recently that there are still people around who do not believe in psychological therapy. Could this be?  Yes. It could be and it is, and I know some of them. So here's the deal: I remember being in my mid-teens and . . .

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Family, Fathers, Mothers, Parenting

Bears, manhood and fatherhood

May 1, 2013 By Carol Cassara Leave a Comment

Sitting Bear, by Linda Israel The bear was my father's icon. Born of Italian immigrant parents, he was first generation American, the only one of his parents' five children to make it past the eighth grade. He became a pediatrician. Compared to my life, he lived in a much smaller . . .

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Filed Under: Trippin' Tagged With: Fathers, New York, Rochester, Rochester New York, United States

Advice for fathers

August 12, 2012 By Carol Cassara 2 Comments

This is absolutely trueand I'm sure some parents just don't think about it. I know men who swear up and down that they will  absolutely positively not  be the kind of husband their fathers were. And 25 years later there they are exhibiting the exact same dysfunction  their fathers . . .

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Tribute to a father

June 17, 2012 By Carol Cassara Leave a Comment

postsecret.com This made me smile. Is there any better tribute to a father? It's the way I feel about my own parents. . . .

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Father’s Day and brothers in arms

June 17, 2012 By Carol Cassara Leave a Comment

We're the last generation that will ever sit with a box of old, faded photographs, my husband pointed out when he saw me poring over old family snapshots and portraits the other day.When our grandchildren want to see old photos, they'll need access to our computers, our phones, our cloud, where . . .

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Art, Blog, Entertainment, Family, Fathers, Opinions, Photography, Racism

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