Our neighbor across the street, Louise Hodapp, would listen to me worry about Jerry being out of work. But she also watched Jerry and Chris go off to the ice rink and she told me, "Joyce, some day Chris will look back and remember these days with his dad and how special it was having that one-on-one time together."

And she was right.

• When I was about 4, my dad was out of work, and every morning we would go to Shove Park, and I would learn how to ice skate.  On the ice those morning usually was Tommy Colobufo and his grandfather. Back then we didn’t wear helmets or pads we just fell and got back up and tried again.  We would finish the session with a game of tag in a circle on the ice.  A Hawian Punch from the vending machine was always refreshing after the session.  Then I would spend the rest of the day with him looking for a job back when you searched using microfiche machines.