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My oldest child is now in middle school and with that comes new adventures as a family. I’m extremely proud of her for many reasons.
One reason is because of her creative spirit. Here’s a poem she wrote recently (after we returned from our vacation in Nebraska in late summer). I’m clearly biased but it’s beautiful and moving.
Her poem is entitled, I am From. And now…she is published: Continue reading ““love and generosity and…loyalty.””
I love my father but it took me nearly 39 years to tell him those words – face to face. It only happened recently. Why or how? I’ll leave it to the psychoanalysts.
While I’ve always loved him so passionately, a big gap began to wedge in our relationship during my adolescent years which is probably the one thing I pray for as my eldest enters into middle school. For several years, I wasn’t quite sure why that was the case.
But after further consideration, I think it is directly linked to fishing. My fondest memory as a kid was going fishing with my father. Everything I know about fishing I learned from my father. But during my teenage years, I became too cool for my father and no longer responded to his invitations to go fishing.
I guess it’s for that reason that I try to fish as much with my father as possible. Every year, Continue reading “growing in love with my father”