Happy Father's Day 2018

With Father's Day looming, I am thinking of greeting cards. No, not the card I need to send my father, but the cards he sent to me every single day when I went away. At camp or visiting relatives, and even into college, I could count on that daily envelope from home: a card carefully selected for the sort of jokes that might appeal to a 9-year-old, and a handwritten note from him.

My father has always been disappearing from my life. The first time he did so was right after my teenage mother told him she was pregnant with me.