father's day

When I told him that I caught a Mantine, he wrote back, Yeah, I think I caught four or five of them today. I didn’t mind—for the first time in my life, my dad and I were talking without a mediator. He called around Thanksgiving to tell me that a new Pokémon had been added. He checked in again during a special water event in the game and said, Are you catching the fire out of these water Pokémon?

My last name links me to my father. Every time I see it, every time I write it down, I think of him. It helps me keep him alive in my soul, and it makes me feel like I’m carrying a part of him with me wherever I go.

Nothing can really prepare you for being a parent. And there is no damn way anything can prepare you for being a step-parent.

"Never have sex with a virgin." Which incidentally I did, not once, but twice.

I disowned my father when I was 17. He was a perfect storm of a human being, drowning women in physical abuse, rape, judgment, and his excuses. I experienced all but rape, and for that I consider myself lucky.

We made you a mixtape . . . to celebrate the music-grooving men who raised us.

Father's Day is this Sunday. Mix up the gift giving with whiskey, USB chords, shoes and more.