Tag: fathers
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Trips to the store with Dad
Remembering times as a kid when it was just me and my dad.
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Fishin’
Just a man and boy fishing, in the middle of a river, in a city’s downtown. How improbable!
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A man needs to feel useful
A man needs to feel useful, like he’s adding value or involved in something meaningful. I don’t think my dad felt that way in the last years of his life. His choices led him there. I can’t tell whether to feel sad or frustrated.
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Grieving the relationship I wanted but never could have with my father
It was on a 1990 road trip with my father that I began to see that he might never be able to have a man-to-man relationship with me.
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Telling Dad’s stories
As I’ve thought about how to tell the stories of my father and me I’ve wrestled with how I will handle some challenges I experienced with him that caused some damage in me. Here’s what I’ve decided.
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James W. Grey, Jr., 1941-2018
My father died last week. He finally succumbed to cancer after 11 years. In this post, I tell his life story.
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It’ll be stronger than it was before it broke
I have a complicated relationship with the futon in my family room. My wife and I bought it while we were still married. The day we brought it home, I regretted the bright blue mattress cover that we chose. Later, as my marriage splintered apart, I spent a good year exiled to it at night.…