The Portable Father: Advice, Encouragement, and Friendly Reminders from Dad

By Stacey Granger

For most of us, Dad always seemed to be the biggest and most wonderful person we knew. In spite of all that Mom did for us, Dad loomed almost larger than life: strong, fun-loving, the most handsomest man in the world, and - most important - the man who protected and loved us. It seemed that Dad was full of advice. He sure had plenty of it to go around. Some of it was to the point and made a great deal of sense, says Stacey Granger. Some of it made little sense at all to my brother, sister, and me, like when he said, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." But when he said, "There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who sit around wondering what happened,"  we knew he was telling us which kind of person he wanted us to become. The Portable Father is a delightful collection of about 300 bits of wisdom, fun, and advice that fathers pass along to their children. Illustrated with 26 cartoons, The Portable Father is filled with sayings we have heard our own fathers speak or - now that we are adults - we've caught ourselves saying to our own children

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Release date: Mar 1, 1997
• ISBN: 9781620453483

Stacey Granger

Stacey Granger, the author of The Portable Mother and The Portable Father, is a mother of five young children who lives in Elkton, Maryland. 

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Copyright © 1997 Stacey Granger

Published by Cumberland House Publishing, Inc.,

2200 Abbott Martin Road, Suite 102, Nashville, Tennessee 37215

All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of the book, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles.

Distributed to the trade by Andrews and McMeel, 4520 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111.

Design by Bruce Gore, Gore Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee. Illustrations by Wes Ware.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Granger, Stacey, A., 1969–

The portable fother / Stacey Granger

p. cm.

9781620453483

1. Fathers—Quotations, maxims, etc. 2. Fatherhood—Quotations, maxims, etc. 3. Fathers—Humor. I. Title.

PN6084.F3G73 1997

306.874’2—dc21

96-50996

CIP

Printed in the United States of America

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8—01 00 99 98 97

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Introduction

To Dad

who encouraged me