I Miss My Dad - JoJofromJerz

[erronis]

https://jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/i-miss-my-dad



A simple and powerful ode to her father and a wish for better times.

My name is Joanne Patricia Carducci. I'm a fifty-one-year-old single mother of two teenagers who really, really misses her dad.

That's a strange sentence to write at this stage of my life, because by the time you reach the second half of it you're supposed to be the adult in the room. You're supposed to have your footing. You're supposed to be the one other people call when things fall apart, the steady voice, the calm pair of hands, the one who already understands how the world works.

Not the woman sitting at her kitchen table late at night realizing that some small, stubborn part of her still just wants her dad.

But the truth is the world we're living in right now is relentless.

. . .

JoJo amazes me in the strength of her writing; whether blasting the crooks in this regime or her personal feelings that she lays bare.

Here's to JoJo and everyone else that misses someone who was once there for them.

[kimbutgar]

1. I know her feeling

I so miss my Dad who died 39 years ago after getting a leukemia diagnosis and died 6 weeks later. He used to drive me to work when I had moved back home after my divorce because he didn’t want me to take the bus downtown to my job that started at 6 am. He was that kind of Dad and my friends to this day speak fondly of him. He was a great father figure who learned from his own father how to be a good man.