My dearest friend, colleague, client and partner in disgust has launched a fantastic podcast called Tell Me About Your Father. It’s inspired by her superb memoir, Don’t Let me Down. I’ve been all about the mommy drama for most of my life. Finally, a conversation about the patriarchy, love, regret, abuse, daddy’s girls, the first man in our lives. The episodes are funny, moving, outrageous, in your face and by the teeth.
Got daddy issues?
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Betsy Lerner 
This sounds great! Thanks!
I’m working on a memoir of poems called Daddy Issues.
Yup.
Used too.
Oh yeah. My father split when I was 2 and married into money while my mother struggled to raise two kids. He kept in contact, but it was always clear that we were his second family and on a much different social, economic level. My mother, sister and I never went on a vacation, we drove around in the best cars $50 could buy and rarely missed a meal. My childhood wasn’t all that bad, though, and the one thing I never lacked from my mother was love. So from my father I learned to not think of money as everything; Although he was a member of the Winged Foot Country Club and we swam in the public pool, things were always tense and uncomfortable at the house my sister and I visited every other Sunday. And as for karma, well, my father has been through 4 divorces and all the material things he had, the money, the house in the Hamptons, nice cars, are all gone. When he needs something, guess who he calls? And I’m still a good son, so sometimes I help.
I’m going to check out your podcast, Erin. And your hair looks great!
“Got daddy issues?”
Who does not?
My dad died a little over three years ago. They say that when a parent dies, it can take several years for the full impact of the loss to manifest itself in the child. That sentence is a clumsy way of saying that I miss him lately in ways I didn’t expect to. We were not close, but we could talk about some things, and I’ve been wishing he was around and we could talk about what’s going on in the world now.
I do have them too. Raised solo by him and am working through edits on that story so very excited about this topical podcast and to learn about this book too. Erin passed my radar during Literary Death Match heyday and it’s so cool to see this evolution.