I recently wrote an essay for Caroline Leavitt’s blog. Caroline is one of my favorite authors and one of the most generous people I’ve ever met. She is absolutely unstinting in her kindness and support for other authors. I learn something from her every time we are in contact.
This essay is about my dad. Who I think about every single day. It is amazing to see how he continues to influence and inspire me, in the most profound and modest ways.
Here’s how it begins:
“My father was an exceptionally modest man. Born in 1917, the third youngest of thirteen children, he was a wonderful listener and rarely talked about himself. His highest form of praise was to call someone a true gentleman; he revered the old-fashioned attributes of grace, modesty, and service to others. After he died I found a list he had written on a piece of three-ring notebook paper, titled “credits.” I love this list so much I’ve framed it and it hangs in my office as a source of inspiration.”
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