Lost my pops in 2012 and still think of him nearly every day, My girl made me chocolate chip cookies and a home made card and I took a long (for me) ride on on the '92 Allez in the morning - a very good day..

When I was a sophomore at Oregon State and struggling during a dark rainy winter quarter, I had taken too big a class load, I took a moment from feeling sorry for myself to recall that at my age, my dad was a veteran of the Korean Conflict and was simultaneously going back to college, married, working full time at Safeway and was the father of 2 young boys (my older brothers)........all I had to do was go to school. It was a suck it up buttercup moment for me.

Dad and I on my birthday a *few* years ago