When I met your Dad, one of the first things that stood out for me was that he cared more about my happiness than his own. He began showering me with greeting cards, for occasions, and if no special occasion was evident, he would create his own. He sent me cards to brighten my day […]
When Jon was about 13 years old (I was 23), I came over to Grandma & Grandpa’s house with a girlfriend, one of many that I had been dating over the past few years. He greeted her (before I had a chance to introduce her to him), saying a little sarcastically: “hi, you must be Sue, […]
For your dad, work was a party. For me work was a war. We were both in the Industrial Engineering department and your dad managed to negotiate only working on the budgets which required very little time and effort. He had it down to a science so that all the analysis and work was done […]
One of daddy’s favorite colors was purple. As a kid, I remember thinking that this was both silly and cool. Silly, because the world told me that purple was a “girl color,” yet cool, because purple was my favorite color!
Recently, I was walking through Harris Teeter with my roommates picking up some groceries for the apartment when I immediately smiled at the seltzer water display. Confused, my friends asked me why the hell I was staring at the bottles of bubbles. Of course, I had tell them why: because of Daddy! Daddy’s drink of […]
Celebrating Jon 