Family Doesn’t Always Need to Be Blood

The long and winding relationship with the man I call my father

My book party launch, 2008

We are our terrific photographs. We are a life in sepia. We are two people who should’ve never been family, yet here we are. Decades past, practicing our remember whens, and it often hurts because I remember all the beautiful good, the mess, the wreck, and the tears in between. And it occurs…