How Smart Is That

Perhaps no father has brought home a greater treat than Richard LaMotta, genius creator of the chocolate chip ice cream between chocolate chip cookie best known as the Chipwich. Naturally, the way forward included some experimentation in his own father's basement, where he worked to figure out how to keep the cookies from getting soggy. This week's objet d'eBay, a Chipwich prop advertising the availability of the product, is noted in honor of LaMotta's passing (from a heart attack, not completely surprisingly).

We keep not just the sandwich in our hearts and its brilliance in our heads, but LaMotta's daughters Kaylaand Marika and son Thomas in our thoughts. RIP and EAT.

Daughter Trifecta

Sweet, separated and torn apart are much of what a father goes through with his daughters.

But what are cliches without extremes?

So, for today, let's consider Dan and Amy Trieber who became the first daddy-daughter duo to achieve the magic 100 milestone at Upland Indiana's Ivanhoe Drive In. In just over three years, beginning when Amy was 9 in March, 2005, the two bonded over milkshakes made from all 100 ice cream flavors.

And for separated consider border dad, U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama whose intermittent home drop-ins during the campaign marathon are much more appreciated than what he is doing the other time. It is "boring," according to daughters Malia Ann and Natasha.

Finally, while it is usually emotions that are torn apart, Brighton's Steve Don, thinking himself an unfit parent because he couldn't get his older daughter into the school of her choice, took a dive under an oncoming train. And his daughter did get in, although he didn't believe the phone call he received with the news shortly before his last ditch effort to achieve something (?).

** Daughters: interested in the sweet life; hard to impress; and enough to drive you crazy. **