Phil Osborne: Say It Now

Say it now. You may not have the chance to say it tomorrow.

This is the second Father's Day I'll spend without mine. He passed away in March 2010. He would have been 79 last month.

We had an interesting, and sometimes tumultuous relationship. He was an absentee dad because he had to be. That's where his jobs were. Long-haul trucker, construction worker, shift worker at factories, military service. You get the picture.

But when he was home, I have fond memories of hours at Fultz's pay lake in...