I wrote this essay 25 years ago—two years before my youngest child, Kathryn, was born. It’s a vignette of my life back then. It was published in the January 31, 1988 edition of “Northwest Magazine,” which once upon a time was the literary supplement to the Sunday Oregonian. The original title was Father and Son [...]
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Graybeard No More
The last time I shaved off my beard was about 17 years ago, while my daughter was away for the summer visiting her grandparents. Kathryn was around five years old. When I picked her and her mother up at the airport, Kathryn wouldn’t speak to me. She hid behind her mother, staring at me doubtfully, [...]
