Lessons Learned From My Kick-Ass Dad
My dad’s brilliant; enough to make you a little mad that you’re probably not going to be that smart. He also holds a black belt in multiple martial arts and once waded through alligator-infested waters at night to get our family home in a flood. And yet those aren’t really the things that make him cool.
From my earliest memories, my dad has been one of my best friends. Even now as a thirty-year-old woman, I get a WhatsApp message from him most mornings.
It helps that we‘re both writers and interested in a lot of the same things. But the main reason for our closeness is that he has always treated me as a person worthy of respect and has acted as a force for good in my life.
His example and our many conversations over the years are perhaps the main reasons I didn’t fall into the patterns of bitterness and unfulfillment that have plagued generations of women in my family.
There are many things from him that informed the person I am today, and most of these were examples he set. Here are just a few.
You’re never too old to be a kid
Every child loves my dad; they always have. They gravitate to him as to ice cream, immediately able to tell that he will be their friend. He will be a monster if that is what is asked of him, but he’s also…
