Snow Falling on Seavers

Snow Falling on Seavers

Show me that smile again.
54 Minuten

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vor 4 Jahren

I was thinking about Growing Pains on this walk--the old TV show.
I was thinking about how the dad, Jason Seaver (Alan Thicke),
worked at home; he was a psychologist with a private practice in
an office right off the family living room. (Horrendous
home-office placement, particularly in a family with three loud,
wise-cracking kids, but I digress.) I'd never before seen a dad
who worked at home. None of the actual dads I knew, in real life,
worked at home. They all drove away in the mornings to be
middle-men, or lawyers or "sell components" 


I can't claim that sifting through these memories of Jason Seaver
as I walked through the woods birthed any great epiphanies or
insights. It's just, some thirty-five years later, I'm a dad who
works at home myself. And on days like this--a snow day, when my
daughters are off from school, rambunctiously skipping back and
forth from the neighbors, making snow angels and sledding, and
I'm up in my office over the garage, yapping on the phone with
book publicity people and typing (always typing)--I feel grateful
to be a dad who works at home: grateful to be here, looking down
on them from my peculiar perch, and taking a break to share hot
cocoa, share the burden, share in the laughter and love. Rain or
shine. All the time. 


This week's walk is sponsored by Sean Sullivan, who thinks you'll
like The Monolith, a short documentary by Rosie Walunas. You can
see it here.

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