The big day  has come and gone, but the respect, love and admiration some of us feel for our dads, has not. Those are feelings that exist all year long.

Our father's day was exciting - we're here in Colorado, visiting the daughter and granddaughter, and soaking up the Erie, CO sun. The mountains are off in the distance (I'm afraid of the mountains... what does that mean?) with their snow capped peaks, and stark maroon cliffs. I look at the mountains and feel small, lost, totally unimportant. Others look at the mountains and see their majesty, their power, their beauty. While I admit all of that is there, I cannot embrace it. They look menacing to me.

This blog talks about women a whole lot. My focus is on women - how to get your products and services in front of them, specifically, online. Sometimes I mention men - especially Dads - because, truth be known, we ladies like our men. We like our Dads, our brothers, our Uncles, our boyfriends, all the terrific neighbor kids that help us mow our lawns and shovel our walks. We love our sons - who so often remind us of their Dads. We embrace the 'family' that includes both sexes.

Dads are important - anyone who says otherwise is just fooling themselves. Dads are vital to the emotional and physical health of our children. Dads are the ones who make it "all right." The ones we run to when the storm is too harsh, too loud, too scary. Their the ones we want to show off for - practice our dance for, display our martial arts for, ask for help with our science project. (yes, we do all this for and with Moms, too... but, there's a fine line between why we do it for Dad and why we do it for Mom; this post is about the Dad Effect.)