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LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY
For My Old Man
I still can't believe my mother put that silly graphic in a picture frame and keeps it in her office. I
refuse to show it again, simply because it isn't art, so this is the original photograph I used.

My father was a football hero at UCLA. His status as a football hero at his prep school was the
reason he got to go to college. My father sacrificed his future health for the shot at a better life than
anything he could have done without it. To this day, even with total knee replacements in both legs,
he walks a little stiff sometimes, and I know he has trouble with his back, too.

I did the silly little cut and paste job with one of Pop's press photos over a wallpaper of UCLA logos
as a little joke for my Pop. He was playing in a touch football game for Bethie's Girl Scout group in
some weird father-daughter event. I was at college and playing around on the computer one night
when I got the idea. I think I spent a half hour whipping it up, tops.

However, my mother got a hold of it, and printed it up into a giant poster to take to the event. Pop
was embarrassed, Bethie was mobbed by the kids who thought her father was "just a doctor" and
Momma had a good laugh with it. I felt horrible about the whole thing, but figured it was over and
done with and there was nothing I could have done to prevent it. And then I came home.

For the rest of my life I'm gonna have to look at that picture in her office, knowing the story behind it.
Thankfully, my father has a great sense of humor. He did marry Momma, after all.