Happy Father's Day

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

- Mark Twain

John Lahr, writing in Esquire in June 2016, remembers "Fishing with My Father." An excerpt:

"Men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after," Henry Thoreau supposedly said. Sometime in the middle of my first morning, with the putt-putt of the motor echoing off the rocky shoreline, I understood what he meant.