The Adventurer's Son

by Roman Dial

That trip holds warm memories of my dad and we bonded then. Later I would learn that bonds need maintenance to endure.

“Birth is the leading cause of death,” my friend Brad Meiklejohn likes to point out. Still, the cliché “At least he died doing what he loved” is wrong, Brad says. “I most admire those who have done what they love their whole lives and died peacefully in bed at a ripe old age.”