This is a First Person column by Frank De Palma, a former newspaper editor who lives in Halifax. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
Sometimes the simple things in life can shine a light on the fray of day to day.
A few years back, I began a daily phone call to my aging father. Give or take a few exceptions, it has stuck.
“Hello, Dad, how are you doing today?”
“No bad. Keepa going,” my 91-year-old father responds, offering one of his favourite catchall phrases.
This is how we start a simple and sublime daily routine. He lives
