John Sowers is the President of The Mentoring Project, and his book came out last week. I thought I’d feature an excerpt. If you’d like to understand the fatherless crisis, John’s book would be an excellent place to begin…. Fatherless Generation: Redeeming the Story The earliest memories of my father are the few times he came to visit us during Christmas. About once a year, he would drive up from Austin to Little Rock for the weekend. My brother and I usually stayed with him at the Motel 6. Back then, Motel 6 had the big mechanical beds that, for only a quarter, would shake and make a low humming noise. Sleeping on them was like riding a giant, lumbering submarine. My father usually smelled like an odd mixture of Old Spice and musky sweat. And for most of my childhood, I just thought that was how a man was supposed to smell. Sometimes he let me “drive” his burgundy Monte Carlo, which consisted of sitting in his lap and playing with the dark hair on his arms. My brother Bill and I always ended up fighting for his attention. To us, his attention was a prize to be won. [...]
