RIP, Dad: Essays on My Father
He died June 2, 2023
We wondered if he’d make it to one final Father's Day last year. He did not. I can’t believe it’s been a year. Here are the pieces on my dad I’ve done so far.
Happy Father's Day. If you have a father still around, enjoy that. If he’s passed: Cherish his memory.
Michael
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Dad Pieces:
Poem for my Father
Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Your stage four Melanoma changes Everything. Sometimes, like now, I stand outside on the old stone porch, in the dark, listening to the wind rustling the lea…
Poem for my Father #2
Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. What do you do In the grotesque face of Death? Do you smile, in your dumb shadowy fear?
Wilderness
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Entry from The Cancer Diaries #1
Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. *My father was sick with cancer for 23 months. My mom and I were his caretakers. Along the way I wrote what turned out to be 190,000 words-worth of journals. For context that’s about 750 pages. …
Dad Dead 9 Months
Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. It’s been almost nine months since my father died. March 2nd will commemorate that reality. It’s still shocking. I still see his stiff blue flesh—cold to the touch—and his vacant marble eyes aft…
My Father Passed
Well, after just shy of two years battling Stage 4 Melanoma, my father, 77, finally passed. He died peacefully yesterday, Friday, June 2nd, 2023 at precisely 4pm. He was a beloved husband and father and he left behind me, my mother, my sister and brother-in-law and their kids. He will be forever missed.
My Father and Me: Pine Mountain (A Father's Day Tale)
Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Sometime in the winter of 2013—when my father was 67 and I was 30—Dad and I decided to backpack for two nights in Pine Mountain, in my hometown of Ojai. My parents still lived in Ojai at that po…
Fatherhood Series Essay: Nature and Character
Bowen Dwelle Latham Turner Lyle McKeany Dee Rambeau Joshua Doležal *This piece is part of a series by a group of men writing on Substack, which now includes Michael Mohr, Bowen Dwelle, Joshua Doležal , Latham Turner, Lyle McKeany and Dee Rambeau. In this first series we’re sharing pieces on the topic of
Death
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MICHAEL MOHRS Y RIP DAD ESSAYS GRACIS