I’m “not a new age hippie” but I didn’t love the idea of keeping my dad’s ashes in a coffee can indefinitely because it was
It’s the 1-year anniversary of Dad’s death. Now we’ve gone through all the firsts without him: holidays, birthdays, etc. I’m feeling pretty OK. We got
I finally finished my Dad’s blog project (johnmatel.com). He had three blogs: a “preblog” that I designed the layout for back in high school, his
The reason I don’t remember much about going to Thermopylae is because we never went. I am combining my dad’s blogs and just got to
Dad took me with him to see The Big Lebowski in theatres. I would have been 13, too young to really understand it. I remember
When we went to Rio, Dad remembered our room number 1821 because that was the year the Texas constitution was signed. He told me to
My dad studied Classics in college and for bedtime stories he told us sanitized Greek myths. I have three Athena statues in my office right
The first time I visited my dad in Brazil I had to get a yellow fever vaccine and endure an hour-long, alarmist presentation about all
When I went down to the farm my dad would mostly show me his favorite napping spots. There was a nice flat rock next to
After my dad passed, I posted various stories and memories on Facebook that I wanted to save on this blog as well. My dad was