I hate Halloween.  I hate all the candy.  I hate all the trick-or-treating.  I hate the costumes.  I hate the crying kids, the carving of the pumpkins and the judgment God seems to rain down on us whenever we celebrate it.  Yeah . . . I hate Halloween. In this episode of Life on Park Street, [...]

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A trip to the local hardware store to pick up some necessary, toy-fixing supplies turns into a memorable event that I never saw coming. In this episode of Life on Park Street, listen as Parenting Expert, Dan Hansen, talks about broken GIJoes, walking sticks and Gollum from The Lord of the Rings.

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The economic collapse last week led reasonable people everywhere to conclude, as I did, that the world was ending.  However, not many of them probably sat down and spelled that all out to their kids.  Yeah . . . that’s the difference that sets me apart as one of the Elite Parents.  My honesty.  And [...]

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Sometimes I let myself think that I’m one of the Elite Parents that God has placed in this world–you know, a parent who was put on this earth for a purpose:  to bring unending joy to his children and to share his wisdom with the suffering masses.  Yeah, sometimes I think that.  And then God [...]

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I attended seminary for only one year.  But during that single year, I learned all kinds of stuff about the human anatomy.  Of course, it wasn’t openly or intentionally discussed . . . but we covered it pretty well in a roundabout way. In this episode of Life on Park Street listen to ex-Seminarian, Dan Hansen [...]

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I don’t know when it happened or how it happened, but the other day I woke up fat. In this episode of Life on Park Street listen to fitness guru Dan Hansen as he talks about being short of breath during meals, about sweating while he sleeps and about what he thinks his funeral will be [...]

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Shortcuts are great.  Shortcuts are cool.  When they work.  When they don’t work…well…they’re painful.  And expensive.  And embarrassing.  And par for the course for me. In this episode of Life on Park Street listen to Dan Hansen as he describes the only moment in his adult life when he came within reaching distance of being cool…before [...]

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When kids are involved, even a peaceful dinner can disintegrate into a complicated series of veiled threats, a fair amount of yelling and, of course, a lengthy argument about who loves God more than everyone else. In this episode of Life on Park Street listen to perennial Father of the Year nominee Dan Hansen as he [...]

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