I often write about heavy stuff each morning so here’s something lightweight and fun for a change! This was taken directly from the website of Alder and Cox, an insurance agency in Tennessee.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the necktie is the most popular of all Father's Day gifts.
The origin of the word dad may simply be baby talk - "The forms dada meaning 'Father'...originating in infantile or childish speech", says the Oxford English Dictionary.
There are 1.5 billion fathers worldwide. 66.3 million of those father's are in the United States.
Father's Day is the fifth-largest card-sending occasion in America with almost 100 million Father's Day cards sent each year.
Only 50% of all Father's Day cards are purchased for dads. Nearly 15% of Father's Day cards are purchased for husbands. Other categories include grandfathers, sons, brothers, and uncles.
The Father's Day card business will ring up about $780 million this year.
According to National Geographic, Father's Day costs less than Mother's Day - with individual consumers spending $94.54 and $138.36 respectively.
Famously Mark Twain said the following about his father: "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years".
The idea of Father's Day was conceived by Sonora Smart-Dodd who wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran, left to raise six children on his own.
It wasn't until 1972 that Father's Day was officially made a U.S. holiday, when President Richard Nixon helped set aside the third Sunday in June for dads.
This picture was taken of Willa and I in 1982 when she was about a year old. I was 33.
"well..." as the men in my family used to say so often when nothing could top the gorgeous truth of a moment: "well...how do you like them apples?" Thank you Kevin, for being a good Dad and dedicated Husband...and dedicated Friend. ~tt2Feathers.