At eighty-nine, my father said, “I don’t care if Ellen DeGeneres wears pantsuits because she’s kind to people and animals. Plus, I like how she dances in her ‘tenner shoes.'” Granted, my father wasn’t as eloquent as MLK was when he said, “judge a man by the content of his character.” However, their lessons taught me much the same–love, acceptance, and kindness. I miss my dad — 1926-2017, John McIntyre–Happy Father’s Day.
Author of Eulogies Unspoken: Stories of Worth and Caring for Dad: With Love and Tomatoes, and YA novel Love at the Center of Grief. The deaths of my parents inspired me to write. It is my goal to share with others my grief journey through stories and poems. I write from the heart with the hope to help others heal. I volunteer as a group facilitator at the Lost and Found Grief Center in Missouri. And for twenty years I've been an at-risk teacher for grades 9-12.