Gunny in Postcards 4

Grandma always laughed when she saw this picture. Gunny is on top….so turn the picture sideways. I laugh too.

I never really knew my dad except through the stories of others. He was brilliant. He had lots of friends, they said. He also was a very funny man….told the very best jokes. He also had learning disabilities so severe that his father wrote a book on how to learn. He got his LL.D before WWII, and came home an alcoholic.

Once I counted the martini’s they had at lunch. Eleven of them.

He sat in his corner chair, and every evening he drank himself into a stupor. I always wanted to know my father.

Gunny on his “one lung” Harley Davidson.

Gunny during his college years.

• Himself: Taking Margot and Zoe to lunch.
• Herself: Very appreciative that one child adopted G as her Dad.
• Reading: The very last Tony Hillerman.
• Dear Abby puts it best: DEAR READERS: I would like to wish a Happy Father's Day to fathers everywhere -- birth fathers, stepfathers, adoptive and foster fathers, grandfathers, and all of those caring men who mentor children and fill the role of absent fathers. LOVE, ABBY
• Balance: Following along behind G today. He’s in charge.