Father's Day

Ode to a Father:

Who I am today is influenced, shaped, and molded by my relationship I had with dad. Dad's sense of humor, and desire to have fun has had a direct impact on my life and how I raised my own childern. The humors tricks and pranks that dad played on me, I passed onto my children. For example my kids would take off out the door, and then I would call them back and then asked that all important question,"How far would you have gotten if I would not have called you back?"

I love roller coasters, and that love of ridding rollercoasters is because dad loved to ride them, and he loved to take me and I love the feeling of loosing my stomach on that first big fall of the coaster. One time when were vacationing in California me and dad ventured out our own without mom's knowledege and found a rollercoaster on the beach, we rode about 5 times ( I really do not remember how many times, but it was alot ). It was sooooooooo much fun, as soon as we got of the rollercoaster we ran back to get inline so we could ride it again. I have done that with my kids, one time we were at Bush Gardens, and there were not many people, the coaster was open so, me and my kids did the same thing, we got off and then ran to get back on the rollercoaster and rode it numerous time; sooooooo much fun.

Dad would take me with him to the oil riggs and that was fun too, the food, the apple pies. I loved the noise of the oil rigg and big diesel engines that drove the drilling, I always slept best out there, I guess that is why I like my fan so much, the noise.

The one thing that I could not do with dad was to discuss intellectual ideas or the "meaning of life" and I do that with mom now, but dad just had not desire to contimplate the issues, I guess he just did not have it in him. I feel sad the way dad's life ended, I am not sure why his life ended the way it did, but I am sure some of the choices that he made in his life had a direct impact on the way his life ended, but I am glad of the time and fun that I had with dad.