A father tries to rebuild his relationship with his daughter after incarceration. Note: The following is an excerpt from Anthony Papa’s “This Side of Freedom: Life After Clemency,“ his new memoir that talks about his life after serving 12 years for a non-violent drug crime in New York state, and being granted executive clemency by New York […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana: My husband of five years recently rekindled a relationship with his 21-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. […]
All these years after my father’s death, I’m still trying to figure out the nuances of the relationship I had with him, and what made him tick. It’s been six years since my father died. When he got sick with pneumonia in March 2009, we thought he would bounce back, even though the changes in […]
Family, like love, is something done, not felt. I’m trying to determine what is the function of a parent to an adult child. And if it’s what I think it is, I wonder who counts as a parent. Based on the actions of my biological father, a parent’s job is to win arguments, use their […]
