Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Since 2007

Tag: relationships

Trips to the store with Dad

Remembering times as a kid when it was just me and my dad.

11 January 2021
When your wife divorces you

Some advice from experience on what to do should your wife decide the marriage is over.

22 May 2020
It’ll be stronger than it was before it broke

A story of a pivotal moment in my relationship with my youngest son. A chance to teach character, a chance to show grace.

8 November 2019
Connecting with your children as people

I always wanted to connect as a person with my father but we never managed it. I’m relieved and grateful that it’s starting to happen between me and my sons.

14 November 2018
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.

16 February 2018
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.

31 January 2018
It’ll be stronger than it was before it broke

A story of a pivotal moment in my relationship with my youngest son. A chance to teach character, a chance to show grace.

24 April 2017
Goodbye, Rick, sort of

Down the Road is on hiatus. New posts resume on Monday! Here’s one last rerun, one that’s special to me. I’m happy to run it again because the first time around (July of 2008) this blog was barely a year old and had few readers. My brother and I didn’t see eye to eye on…

23 September 2016
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.…

20 September 2013