My dad died of cancer 3 and half years ago. So I can't tell him Happy Father's Day today. But I'd like to thank him for a few things. These are just a few. I have a whole lifetime of thank you's for him but they wouldn't fit in a blog post.

• Thanks for working so hard when we were kids. Many times you held two or more jobs. You taught me the value of good work ethics.
• Thanks for teaching me kindness and generosity. Many are the times I witnessed you paying for a poor elderly person's groceries at the check out line when you knew they didn't have much money.
• Thanks for keeping my crazy 1979 Fiat X19 running while I was in high school. That car was a maintenance disaster but you uncomplainingly spent many hours fixing it every single time it broke down.
• Thanks for helping me build a telegraph machine out of an old phone and some wire for my 6th grade science project.
• Thanks for teaching me how to install a light fixture, how to use just about every woodworking tool in existence, and for explaining what exactly a plumb bob is.
• Thanks for taking us to Disney World when I was 10, even though there were six of us crammed in a 1977 Chevy Nova and we were cranky as hell and suffering from Florida-beach-sunburns on the 12 hour drive home to Mississippi.
• Thanks for teaching us that the entire family should get in the kitchen and help prepare the meals. Those are some of the best memories I have.
• And speaking of food, thanks for making the best barbeque ribs on the planet.
• Thanks for loving my mother and being married to her for 39 years.