Father’s Day Roundup
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there (you pet dads count too)!
Looks like the Stuckey’s had fun with their celebrations.
Sherry shares a touching article she wrote about her dad.
Usually I post only light-hearted stuff, but today is Father’s Day, so I’m doing something a little different. It has been just over 8 years since my dad died. The following is what I wrote that appeared on the op/ed page of Charleston’s “Post and Courier” on my first Father’s Day without Dad
Syd posted a letter he wrote to his dad a few years ago
I think about you often and over the past year have come to love you more than I believe I ever did. I have thought and spoken of all the things that you taught me. I wouldn’t have learned to love the water as I do if it hadn’t been for you. And because of what you taught me about boats, I’ve made a career of not only doing my work from boats but seeing many things in the ocean that few have ever seen. I am grateful for what I learned from you.
Francis gives us his memories of fatherhood
When our family was growing up my two oldest sons would sit at the supper table and swear on their mother’s cheeseburgers and coke they would never be like their father and wear a blue pin-striped suit and wing-tips to work every day. Fast forward a decade or better and one of them met his brother at work one day and said, “Christ, look at us. We’ve become Dad – pin stripes and wing-tips.”