Father's Day!

Don’t forget Father’s Day on June 20th!

Dad’s Lessons Of Life

Tim Russert, moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press from 1991 to 2008, did something that most of us will never do: He wrote a book expressing his gratitude for – and celebrating the wisdom of – his beloved father. The 2004 memoir was entitled Big Russ & Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life, and it became a #1 bestseller.

Big Russ & Me did something else: It inspired more than 60,000 people to write and email Russert with their own memories of their fathers. In 2006 Russert turned some of those memories into his second bestseller, Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons, giving others an opportunity to express their gratitude for – and celebrate the wisdom of – their own fathers.

Tim Russert died suddenly in June 2008 at the age of 58. In addition to being a son he was himself a father, a husband, and in the words of a colleague, “one of the premier political journalists and analysts of his time.” He received countless awards for professional excellence, and was clear on where credit for his many accomplishments was due. In the introduction to Big Russ & Me Russert wrote, “I hope this book will encourage readers to think about the things they learned from their father. Whatever we achieve and whoever we are, we stand on their shoulders.”

You don’t have to write a book to tell the dads in your life how much you appreciate them.