Holly Richardson: Happy Full Partner Father’s Day

FILE - This Nov. 21, 2014, file photo shows the sign outside the home where Sonora Smart Dodd lived in Spokane, Wash., in the early 20th century. The sign commemorates Dodd as the person who conceived the idea of Father's Day in 1909, the so-called ''Mother of Father's Day.'' The Craftsman-style house is privately owned and occupied, but the marker telling the story of the local connection to the holiday's history can be seen in the front yard. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios, File) I might have heard a time or two that I am “strong-willed” and “intimidating.” (Those are among the printable things I’ve been called, anyway.) Often, those comments are followed by a question like, “How did you convince your husband to ‘let’ you adopt/run for public office/go back to school/do international humanitarian work?”

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