I gave up smoking the day I found out my wife was pregnant with our first child
that VERY day
My father smoked at the dinner table, in the car, all around us
ALL the time
I’ve never been drunk around my children...EVER
I’ve had no more than 2-3 drinks, telling them the virtues of wine
My father, if he came home with a beer in his hand on Friday afternoon, we knew we were in for it until Sunday night.
beatings, going in to get him at 2am in seedy bars, pulling him off of my mother
I always tell my kids I love them. Everyday. Email. Text. Phone calls. Holding them close to me. Smelling their hair and holding onto them is my favorite place in the whole world.
daddy are you my best buddy?
’always and forever, your best buddy’
The last time I heard my dad say I love you where I think he actually meant it was Christmas 1979, 39 years ago. Unless showing up for little league games stone drunk & belligerent towards my coaches is love. Or never showing up at all on afternoons he said he would to go play golf with me...just me. No call. No show.
father...you used to be my daddy. Remember? I thought you were the strongest man in the world. You had the biggest hands. Mine were so small in yours
We don’t suffer anymore at the hands of our fathers
Do we daddy?