Family:John's burial & memorial service were very cathartic.  I am very glad I was there.  I am very glad I was able to help & support Andy's family, and I am very grateful that my family (parents & sister) were able to come out to rural Minnesota for the memorial service.  Father's day is this weekend.  There are many other important dates tied to ( Read more... )

We're celebrating father's day on Friday (the 26th). I was out of town for work last week, so I totally forgot to buy a card until today. But, all the (remaining) options were icky and terrible so I bought a blank card with Thing 1 & Thing 2 on the front, and wrote this (I removed some of the more personal stuff):

Dear dad ( Read more... )

I am very grateful that I have such a good relationship with my dad. It's hard to explain beyond that, but one of my favorite things about him is the odd poetic way that he writes emails. Below I've copied one of my favorites, which he sent to my mom while she was out of town. He'd been working on the Corvette Stingray that we inherited from my ( Read more... )