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To Ease the Suffering of Ukrainian Refugees (and Our Own Guilt)

Allan Shedlin

Mar 17

To Ease the Suffering of Ukrainian Refugees (and Our Own Guilt)

DCG founder Allan Shedlin turns to poetry as he grapples with the guilt he feels while Ukrainian families suffer far away.

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Allan Shedlin

Dec 2, 2021

A Dad for the Holidays

DADDYING guest writer Kirsten Porter shares holiday memories of and poetry to express her yearning to reconcile with her father.

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Annie's Poem: A Child Copes With Pandemic Anxiety

Allan Shedlin

Oct 28, 2021

Annie's Poem: A Child Copes With Pandemic Anxiety

9-year-old Annie has turned to poetry during the COVID pandemic to help express and cope with the difficult things she's been feeling.

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Allan Shedlin

May 20, 2021

The Daddying Ties That Bind

DCG Founder Allan Shedlin and DADvisor Hakim Bellamy harmonize different daddying perspectives with poems using necktie imagery and themes.

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Allan Shedlin

Sep 10, 2020

Lost In The Sun

As best as any words can, Ethelbert Miller's "Lost In The Sun" conveys some of the unimaginable heartbreak felt by a parent losing a child.

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Soul Searching and Daddy Yearning In COVID-19 Isolation

Allan Shedlin

Apr 15, 2020

Soul Searching and Daddy Yearning In COVID-19 Isolation

The men of my family were men of small rooms. I think of this as I begin another week of social distancing.

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Fathering The Sickness (AKA Ministering to the Sick)

Allan Shedlin

Apr 8, 2020

Fathering The Sickness (AKA Ministering to the Sick)

Dad wouldn’t have done anything different in a pandemic. He was always stockpiling essentials.

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Daddying Vows: A Worthy Remembrance of Kobe and Gianna Bryant

Allan Shedlin

Feb 27, 2020

Daddying Vows: A Worthy Remembrance of Kobe and Gianna Bryant

All too often, the heartfelt vows that fathers make to their children at birth seem to disappear to a secret land of single socks and...

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To Ease the Suffering of Ukrainian Refugees (and Our Own Guilt)

A Dad for the Holidays

Annie's Poem: A Child Copes With Pandemic Anxiety

The Daddying Ties That Bind

Lost In The Sun

Soul Searching and Daddy Yearning In COVID-19 Isolation

Fathering The Sickness (AKA Ministering to the Sick)

Daddying Vows: A Worthy Remembrance of Kobe and Gianna Bryant

My Best Guess

Is Twenty Dollars Enough?

Being A Dad Gave Me The Best Creative Fuel To Launch A "Space Cadet"

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