Tiny. Fragile. Beautiful. Those were my first thoughts. I couldn’t believe I was handling my baby daughter. “What do I do with this?” That was my second thought. “Where is the owner’s manual?” I had an owner’s manual for my car, TV and even my microwave, and that was just basically punching a few buttons and presto, I had a warmed-up piece of meat. “What do I do now? How am I going to handle this? What’s next?” A few months later, my dad, daughter and I went out to lunch at a hamburger place. While we were eating, a stench came over the table. “What’s that smell?” my dad asked. Oh, now it was…

Norton's own Bill Gouveia wrote a Mother's Day column in the past saying how fathers are always being cheated on their special day. After some digging, I discovered that this just might be true. Mother's Day became an official holiday in 1908. You would think a natural step would be to proclaim a day for fathers soon after. However, all the dads out there had to wait until about 60 years later. Though the first observance of Father's Day is credited to Sonora Dodd who was influenced by the idea of Mother's Day from Anna Jarvis, it is rumored that the original day took place July 5, 1908 in …