Dad Dialogues

A few months ago I hit a milestone birthday and had the amazing opportunity to interview my dad at the StoryCorps booth in Chicago. StoryCorps is an organization that allows everyday people all around the country to enter a recording booth and interview anyone they want. The high fidelity recordings are then archived at the Library of Congress so that future generations can listen back and understand the life and times of the people we live with today. For me, it meant a lot that my Dad was receptive to doing this with me. It was impossible for me to not get emotional while doing it, knowing that these recordings would far outlast my parents and even myself. The reality is that if I ever have kids that aren’t fortunate enough to know my Dad, I would want them to at least have this glimpse of who he was. An even crazier reality is that even after I’m gone, kids of my kids could listen to these recordings and hear first hand of how their ancestors became Americans. I think my parents lived and continue to live the most remarkable lives they could have asked for. And sorry I’m an ugly crier, I definitely don’t get that from my dad :)