I know very little about Paul Simon’s life. Jewish, New Yorker, married to Edie Brickell. That’s about it. So it’s fitting that last night while that boring SNL 40th Anniversary special was on TV and…
Posts tagged daddy issues
And then it was time to break her heart Or, this is how you tell your mom your biological father is dead
I cannot listen to The Avett Brothers’ song “Live and Die” without a few melancholy tears sliding down my face. The song will forever be associated with discovering my biological father had died. As I…
It is weird & I am sad
This post was syndicated on BlogHer I’ve discovered that it is much easier to mourn a cat than it is to mourn a biological father you never met. I don’t know how to do this…
Immediate side effects
The day after you find out the biological father you never met died two years ago, you will find yourself at Target and realize that you no longer have to scrutinize every tall man of…
I went to Google & all I got was this crummy obituary
All I have are his name on my birth certificate and two fuzzy pictures from 1971. I keep those photos in my copy of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. I have for years. There’s no…