If you read this blog, you’ve probably read about Danny, my father’s best friend from his days in prison and in the years after both left the joint. My dad respected him so much that he named my younger brother after him. Somewhere along the way, however, Dad and Danny had a falling out. This […]
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“Well, I just got out of prison.” Not exactly the best line to use during a job interview. Nonetheless, my father was just being honest when he interviewed for a job in print shop in California during the early 1970s. “I’ll never forget what she said,” the old man said. “She said, ‘Now that’s a
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The first time my father ran away from home, he was 6 years old. He’d had enough of “not being allowed to do anything” and was set on seeing the world. Picture the iconic image of a boy leaving home with a bindle over his shoulder. That was the old man as a child walking
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