Father's Day means sadness for some

Father's Day is getting closer and I have so many friends and co-workers who have lost fathers just since the first of the year. It will be hard for them. I can't imagine not having my dad here on Earth. I wish I could do something for all these friends, Jim, Joanne, Judy, Dana and others. I wish they knew how often I think of them. In honor of lost fathers and living fathers....

• Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor

• The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad!~Author Unknown

• When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874

• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby

• A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown