First Note: Short of death there is nothing that will keep me from being in my daughter's life. The sun rises and sets with my daughter. As much as is humanly and appropriately possible, I want to be present for all of it...

Inspire The Dad In Your Life To Be His Best All Year Long

In this all-new episode, Oprah Winfrey and Iyanla Vanzant address an audience and online community of daddyless daughters who reveal their personal stories of how not having a father present in their life affected who they are today. With symptoms of low confidence, overcompensating in other relationships, and seeking love in all the wrong places, daughters who want to heal seek guidance from Oprah and Iyanla in order to prepare to move forward with their life with a positive, new outlook.

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A couple of days ago I was minding my business, heading into Target to get a garbage pail (the old school one) to stash the pup's poo after taking him on walks rather than the main trash. Well I didn't find the trash can but someone in my field saw me. James Andres, otherwise known as @KeyInfluencer on Twitter has a social media resume as long as my arm, maybe even my leg. In any event he recognized me and interviewed me on the spot via Social Cam. I was very concerned as my bald head is usually quite shiny by nightfall and most of my strength was zapped by a cough I caught from my daughter.

I can't embed the video in this post so you will have to watch it by clicking here.

I don't stress Target as many people do. James even began his interview mentioning the idea that people are on display at Target. I know women who put on makeup to go to Target. I've never paid it much mind.

Maybe I should start.

Let me know what you think in the comments below. Was I on my Ps and Qs? Did I seem prepared to be caught off guard or am I caught off guard?

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Tray Chaney from The Wire "goes in" on #fatherhood dropping science like they used to back in the day...

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Challenges don't come to destroy us or make us angry at ourselves or with everyone around us. Nor are they intended to ruin our lives or our relationships. All this can and will happen if you allow it, but ultimately challenges come to make us stronger.

Try your best to spend your energy overcoming and spend as little time as humanly possible reacting that a challenge has landed at your feet. Easier said than done, but please try.

Rise to the challenge!

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I recently attended Digital Atlanta, which I almost missed because I thought it was this week and not the one that just passed. I attended one event on how to use of video to drive online traffic where my friends were panelists and was inspired in the process. @LamarTyler, @AmaniChannel and @Jeffrey_Funk are titans in the online video game and shared their stories about the power of video over straight writing and in addition to it. I don't have a video camera nor a DSLR with a video function nor any editing software that will generate the kind of results I would demand of myself. But I do have a new iPhone and I found a nifty little App called Splice which allowed me to do produce the following...



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PS - Please excuse the camera shake (where it wasn't intended). This was my very first time shooting and editing video - all inside a phone at that.

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Last week I picked up the largest order of chicken I've ever laid eyes on --- forty pounds of free range chicken breasts courtesy of Zaycon Foods. After excitedly getting all this chicken thanks to a connection from a fellow blogger, after dragging this big box of juicy poultry into my freezer in the garage the question that begged to be answered suddenly popped into my head:

What on Earth am I going to do with forty pounds of chicken?

Watch below to see what my wife and I have done so far with just the first ten pounds. Stay tuned for more.



I'm the author of DAD: As Easy As A, B, C! - 26 Dos & Don'ts for Fathers. Click here for my story and the origin of Makes Me Wanna Holler. Do you Tweet? Follow EPayneTheDad on Twitter. Live on Facebook? Like Makes Me Wanna Holler on Facebook.

Becoming a father is EASY. Elevating your experience to that of DAD is something else entirely.



It isn't easy and sometimes it might not even be considered enjoyable, but it isn't written anywhere that it should be. But no matter what, for the sake of your family and our collective communities at large, it's 100% worth it. Dig in! Stay in!

DAD: As Easy As A, B, C! will be hitting Amazon.com Kindle store on Tuesday, June 21st. In the meantime please enjoy the first 25 pages posted below.

Thank you and Happy Father's Day!!!

DAD: As Easy As A, B, C!

E.Payne is the author of the soon to be released DAD: As Easy As A, B, C! and I Didn't Invented Sex. For the past 3 years he has posted 600+ articles about fatherhood, marriage and everything in between here at Makes Me Wanna Holler.com. To learn more, click here.