Family Matters

Every family seems to have an old weird uncle ....

I guess to my nieces and nephews that's unanimously me.

I know my chosen role. 

OK, maybe not intentionally chosen but it's how things have worked out.
And it seems I've become more eccentric by the day .... the minute even.

Especially since passing age fifty.

I'd rather stay home, reading or listening to music than travel to exciting destinations.

I'd rather keep working than be 'retired.' Even though I am the oldest sibling.

I'd rather take a vinyl record shopping road trip than attend a family function.

While the others have had lasting relationships and surrounded by children, I've had a short marriage and been single and childless since.

If there's one thing that I'm envious of the vast majority of the population, it's that I don't have a son or daughter to look after me if ever needed.

No one to drop in just to talk to dad.

That never mattered to me until a year or two ago.

But things that you don't think matter, have a way of catching up with a person.

I've always thought that I could have been 'dad-of-the-year' material