What I learned from Daddy

My parents' marriage wasn't perfect, but it lasted

Daddy standing, at right. Wasn’t he handsome? I’m in the terrible coke-bottle glasses on the left, with my sister, Karen, and my mother, Virginia. They all have passed on to Heaven. (The sitting man was a guest at our house.) This photo was taken sometime around 1972.

Editor’s note: Last week was Father’s Day, and I wrote this piece but didn’t send it ou…