Ghost Writers in the Sky

I always wondered what it must have been like for Jay Leno when he was the guest host on the Tonight Show, back when Johnny Carson was still the king of late night television. What a great gig that must have been…you have the freedom to screw things up royally, and then in short order the king is back to pull the ratings back from the dumper.

So here I am, the Jay Leno to Steph’s Carson. I hope I don’t run off the regulars. If I do the queen will soon return with all her freshly chap-sticked, creative, witty, and quirky posts (did I mention chapstick?) to save the blog,

This all started in response to Steph’s last entry. I suggested she get a guest blogger…like her mom. I thought it was a great idea. I mean, wouldn’t it be cool for her mom to have a guest shot to give us some juicy "conversations with Steph" insights that we could torture the queen with? Alas, the idea backfired, and I got the call.

So, sit back and endure my inaugural blog post…

While I am in full agreement that motherhood is not for wusses, being a father is not for the faint of heart either.

Bill Cosby once said "Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." I guess that would be the original leashed toiletry. ;-)

I did a little research and was surprised to discover that Father’s Day (June 15th this year, for those who need the warning) has only been an officially recognized day of remembrance since 1972…one of the relatively unknown gifts of the Nixon administration.

The idea of a day to celebrate good fathers was born in 1909 in the mind of a young lady named Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd. It was inspired while she was listening to a sermon which told of the creation of Mother’s Day. Mrs. Dodd and her five siblings had been raised single handedly by her father, after the death of his wife, and Mrs. Dodd believed that her father’s years of selflessness deserved recognition. She began the work in his honor that eventually led to the establishment of Father’s Day some sixty-three years later. All of which goes to show that even a crooked president cannot deny the perseverance of a good woman with a just cause.

….long live the queen…. ;-)