It’s only natural for a father to promise himself he’d never ever hurt his child. The day my daughter was born I uttered those words internally and externally; her birth resurrected me and I made that declaration with good intent. But to go a whole lifetime without causing emotional stress…
My daughter thinks I am scary. In actual fact, my daughter will tell you that I am the scariest person in the world. I can ask her, “What’s the scariest thing in all the world?” She’ll reply, “You are daddy.” Or more accurately, she’ll just point at me silently. This…
‘Fathers never stop being Fathers, and Sons never stop being Sons’ I’ve been working on a piece I’ve called ‘Voyage Around My Father’, a series of short stories exploring my often volatile relationship with my father from boyhood to manhood. I was working on it Saturday night when I got…
It was in February on the day of the Chinese new year 2012, I was sitting in the living room with my son, then 11 months, watching some of the celebrations in central London on the TV whilst the wife was asleep. The week before, he had been helping himself…