"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"

~Winnie the Pooh

NOMINATED!!!
By the LA Press Club for two 2013 SoCal Journalism Awards!

Patrick Caneday's "Small Wonders" column has been nominated by the Los Angeles Press Club for two Southern California Journalism Awards. His tribute to a friend who took his life was nominated  for Best Personality Profile, and a column about hypocrisy in politics and religion was nominated for Best Commentary. The awards ceremony will be held at the Biltmore Hotel on June 23, 2013. 

"Small Wonders" runs every other Saturday in the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader .

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SMALL WONDERS 6/15/13
The Perfect Father's Day

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It’s an age-old question with as many answers as there are muffin-topped men afraid to talk about their feelings wandering the barbecue aisle at Home Depot on Saturday:

What to do for Father’s Day?

So here to aid, abet and entertain you is The Perfect Father’s Day as imagined by yours truly (if time, money and gastro capacity had no limits, of course)...

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Glendale News Press
Burbank Leader

2013 Southern California Journalism Awards
Nominee for Best Personality Profile

SMALL WONDERS:
About Mike

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It's just another tragic news story until it's about someone you know.

If you read the Glendale News-Press last week you saw a story about a man who closed the book on his life by jumping from the Glendale (2) Freeway overpass above Chevy Chase Drive.

His name was Michael Ivan Romo.

And he hated it when we used his middle name...
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Glendale News Press
Burbank Leader

2013 Southern California Journalism Awards
Nominee for Best Commentary

SMALL WONDERS:
A convenient marriage of doctrine and politics

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History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.  — Louis Fischer

As recently as 2004, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — Mormons — were excluded from participating in events organized by the National Day of Prayer Task Force, the largest Christian grassroots organizer of annual National Day of Prayer observances. 

The task force is chaired by Shirley Dobson, wife of James Dobson, founder of the conservative Christian activist group Focus on the Family.

Yet, just this year, major Christian colleges such as Liberty University have welcomed figureheads of the LDS Church as commencement speakers. And some of the Christian community's most prolific voices — Franklin Graham, Chuck Smith and Tony Perkins, to name just a few — have been walking back the condemnation many evangelical Christians have long had for Mormonism.

What changed in eight short years?
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Glendale News Press
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random thoughts on being human

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ABOUT PATRICK

Patrick Caneday is the award-winning writer of the Small Wonders column appearing in the Burbank Leader and Glendale News Press newspapers each Saturday. His writing has also been featured on The Good Men Project and Huffington Post. His award-winning book, "Crooked Little Birdhouse: Random Thoughts on Being Human" is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

Patrick was raised in Glendale, CA and now lives in Burbank. He has worked in the entertainment industry as a post production coordinator, supervisor and executive for almost 25 years. He's not a journalist or trained writer. He's just a working stiff and parent trying to make sense of fatherhood, culture, society and himself.