An early Father’s Day

Because of a scheduled trip out of town next Sunday, we decided to celebrate Father’s Day a week early. So last Sunday my wife Deb and I took Pops down to Ulster Landing Park on the Hudson River where we barbecued spareribs and watched the boats go by. Pops always enjoys an afternoon at the river because that’s where he grew up, and it brings up a lot of old memories. For Father’s Day, I gave Pops the token gift of a couple of books I bought at a local library fair. One was a paperback of Master and Commander, a famous sea story by Patrick O’Brian, which I took Pops to see when it was in movie theaters a few years back. Pops likes sea stories, so I think he will like this. He also likes tales of 19th Century arctic exploration, and that’s what the other book is about. The title is, “The Terror,” by Dan Simmons, and it was an Amazon best seller. But it was kind of a risk, too, because it’s really a horror story that happens to be set against an 1845 arctic expedition. I am not aware that Pops likes the horror genre, but we’ll see. It wouldn’t be the first time a gift of mine has been a flop . Actually, Pops’ current reading tastes are a mystery to me. He reads a lot and his apartment is full of books, but they are just the popular titles that people read and then give to him. He reads many of them, but I can’t believe he would ever pick them out himself to read. The only books he has around that are actually books of his own include the works o...
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