It's funny how we take against certain words, isn't it?
My father hated being called Dad, or even referred to as a dad. I think he thought it was a tacky Americanism, and he wanted to appear ... cultured, I guess, to distance himself from the poverty of his childhood.
We called him by his first name, Daniele.
But "Dad & Dog" sounds good to me, and I'm using it.
This is one of my favorite photos of my father. He's with Bop, the dog Lucinda and I got as a puppy when we lived in Chicago in the late-1980s, when Lucinda was getting her MFA in painting.
Hm. I could have called this Pop 'n' Bop.
(I call Lucinda bink now, but back then she had a different nickname, which she didn't much like so I won't mention it here*---anyway, that's why I call her Lucinda here---also, when she's being an artist, I think of her that way.)
*But I will here. It was Babs. I loved it, but she didn't.
My father hated being called Dad, or even referred to as a dad. I think he thought it was a tacky Americanism, and he wanted to appear ... cultured, I guess, to distance himself from the poverty of his childhood.
We called him by his first name, Daniele.
But "Dad & Dog" sounds good to me, and I'm using it.
This is one of my favorite photos of my father. He's with Bop, the dog Lucinda and I got as a puppy when we lived in Chicago in the late-1980s, when Lucinda was getting her MFA in painting.
Hm. I could have called this Pop 'n' Bop.
(I call Lucinda bink now, but back then she had a different nickname, which she didn't much like so I won't mention it here*---anyway, that's why I call her Lucinda here---also, when she's being an artist, I think of her that way.)
*But I will here. It was Babs. I loved it, but she didn't.
No...no..no...no Babs. It went with Biff, if you recall.
ReplyDeleteBop yes! What a dog! No one could bounce a ball quite like him!
Dad and dog...good.
Babs & Biff! Happy days...
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