One morning a few years back I was dropping Liya, my then-4-year-old daughter, off at her preschool. The director gently scolded me by telling my daughter to “remind her father to give her a jacket on such a cold day.”

As a proud veteran of the United States Marine Corps, my father loves to reminisce about his time in service. It was only fitting that our morning runs together were led with cadence calls.

Father’s Day brings to mind one afternoon, many years ago, when I took my two little boys to the mall so I could buy a pair of dress shoes.