"Your column makes me laugh - and I'm a lifelong bachelor " - B.T. Collins, Gov. Jerry Brown's former chief of staff From the author, Gary Zavoral: In the early 1990s, whenever my oldest child Melissa would do or say something silly or stupid, she would get all upset and remark, "Oh no, now that's going to appear in Dad's column." Thankfully for her and the rest of my family, The Sacramento Union shut down operations in 1994. I stopped writing "The Grateful Dad" and the past columns are now stored in a library. What my family didn't count on was their dad resurrecting the columns for the...