Happy Father’s Day to our male readers! Also, of course, it’s a great day to honor our fathers, whether our biological dads, our adoptive dads, our grandfathers, and/or the positive male figures that have influenced our lives. I love this photo of my dad holding me when I was a baby, and the look of […]
Hats Off to Dad!
My dad used to call me “My Son John.” I was his fifth and final daughter. He had no sons. In the Mennonite farming culture my parents came from — plus that gap of six years after daughter number four — I could not possibly have been good news. And yet, even with the nickname, […]