Daddy’s Diaries

Daddy’s Diaries XVIII

It’s new, this ability to see my grandfather as an individual, separate from the fact that he fathered my father. I think it helps that I’ve met the woman whose narrow passageway Dada came out of.

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A mind for another time

We judge their ‘close-mindedness’ and vow never to do the same with our own children. But I think my parents are far more open-minded than me.

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Daddy’s Diaries XVII

I am in a relationship that is extremely volatile. It is the most painful test of my pleasure,and I wonder why it doesn’t just betray me in the end.

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Daddy’s Diaries XIV

They stand as reminders that we have the ability to surprise ourselves. What we’re really looking to be are tourists in our own lives.

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Daddy’s Diaries XII

Trapped by the confines of a clock, I cheated myself out of the one thing I love most. I worry that this preoccupation with occupation is going to be the death of us.

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Daddy’s Diaries XI

Wear my name inside your soul, To pick you up if you should fall. It was unusual, I realize now, that a 13-year-old would contemplate such a reality.

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Daddy’s Diaries IX

It used to bother me that my father couldn’t commit to a book. I would never be so disloyal as to begin a new story before ending an old one.

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