Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?
The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on.
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
