It’s hard when you have so many choices. Be it choosing from an assortment of teas, hand lotion and cheese, a list of books-to-read, or shopping for a pink blouse. Same dilemma with Daddy; and more so because my admiration continued to shift as the earth made its rotations around the sun.
Read moreA Military Father's Gift
A cadet at the Pakistan Military Academy
“Daddy, Javed hit me,” I said to my father… I was six, or not quite. Javed was the neighborhood bully, a skinny, wiry boy, probably just a year older than me. .. “Don’t come crying to me. Go back and hit him.”
Read moreA Keepsake From My Father
“When I am gone, you can publish them,” Daddy said to me.
“I want to publish them in your lifetime….There is no benefit to you if they are published afterwards.” I choked on the word ‘afterwards.’ So began the work of organizing Daddy’s memoirs
A Letter to My Father
2nd Lieutenant in England in 1951
I have been thinking about the conversations I would have had with you over the past ten years since you left us. Sometimes I have wondered: what would Daddy have said? Sometimes: Did you see his latest Tweet? And these days, it is: It’s a good thing you are not around.
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