June 16th, 2002, was the day my father, Lloyd E Mitchell, passed away; that’s 20 years and the anniversary date for this year. I’ve been thinking about it since March 2022, six months after my mother passed. Dad passed away on Father’s Day, a day I haven’t celebrated since then, because I didn’t want to […]

I have intentionally avoided mentioning anything on Father’s Day for years. It’s because my dad passed away on Father’s Day in 2002, though the date then was the 16th instead of the 19th. I’m not a father, and I probably will never be one. I’m an only child so I’m not an uncle either, although […]