Date Nights
Alan decided to start a date night tradition in order to spend one-on-one time with each of his daughters. He let them choose where they wanted to go from a variety of options he had pre-determined he could endure. They usually chose one of those pizza and arcade places with mechanized animals that annoy the […]
Go Tell Him
Meagan and I spent a day on campus at the University of Georgia, the college she hopes to attend next year. We toured the classrooms, the stadium, met with a few faculty members, and peeked into a freshman women’s dorm where I had to explain that the stack of menus on the foyer table were […]
Johnny Cliff Parris
Johnny, my father-in-law, is very attached to his only daughter, often telling me, “Jill will always be my little girl.” Before I met Jill he spent a considerable amount of time helping her with whatever she needed, including cutting the grass and making repairs at her home, keeping up with the maintenance of her car, […]
When to Laugh
Kourtney’s father was always the one to pick her up when she was hurt, brush her off, and bandage her cuts and scrapes. Each time he calmly told her that everything would be better soon, and did what he could to get her to laugh, hoping to help his daughter forget about her pain or disappointment. […]
Father and Daughter Memories
On the cover of my first book there is a photo that depicts, among other things, a letter I wrote to Meagan while she was in kindergarten. On my way to the airport for a week-long business trip, I dropped the letter off at her school, wanting to give her something to comfort her during […]
Traditions
Ali’s father is a railroad engineer. As such, he traveled great distances and could be away from home for long stretches at a time. For this reason, plus the demands of her new job, Ali didn’t get to see her dad as much as she wanted now that she had completed college and began her […]