30 Things I’ve Learned From My Dad

A Father’s Day reflection

Here’s the thing about Father’s Day: Whatever our relationships are like with our fathers — whether they’ve been toxic like Erin French’s in her memoir Finding Freedom or fantastically close despite paternity like Dani Shapiro’s in Inheritance, whether the relationship has evolved into more of a caregiving one like Richard Lui’s in Enough About Me or is one of loss and reminiscence like Richard Russo’s Marriage Story — without our dads, we simply wouldn’t be here.