RaisingDad

Your wife posted on Facebook how you've been helping her with her Christmas baking.      Cakes, cookies, pies... everything the family likes to eat during the holidays.      They make nice gifts, too.      She called it a family tradition.      When I told our father about it, he said, "Your brother's wife likes to keep him busy so he'll be too tired to pester her for sex."       RaisingDad RaisingMyFather.BlogSpot.com JimDuchene.BlogSpot.com. American Chimpanzee @JimDuchene   

I remember when  you were a kid and Uncle Joe came over and asked our father if he could take you to a college football game.    “I have an old Navy buddy who’s in the athletic department of another college and he’s coming into town to scout some of the players.”    Pop didn’t see anything wrong with it, so he said sure.    As you both were getting into Uncle Joe’s car, our father asked him, “What’s your friend’s name?”    “Jerry Sandusky,” Uncle Joe said, speeding off.       RaisingDad RaisingMyFather.BlogSpot.com JimDuchene.BlogSpot.com @JimDuchene   

as featured in Desert Exposure Magazine      “Only love can break your heart.” -- Neil Young    I had bad news for my father      His younger brother, whom I wrote about back in 2015, had lost his battle with cancer.      I went into my father’s bedroom. He was awake, just looking at the ceiling.      “Aren’t you going to get out of bed?” I asked.      “Can’t,” he said. “I’m dead.”      “What makes you think you’re dead?”      “Because I woke up and nothing hurts.”      That reminded me of how I first heard my uncle was sick. I was sitting by my father in the den, me on my laptop and him watching TV.      “What're you doing?” he wanted to know.      "Research,” I told him. “On Google." ...