I became a dad in the summer of 2003 (to a daughter) and to a son in the fall of 2005. Since I didn’t get to experience having a dad it probably serves to make me take being a dad more importantly than anything else in my life. Life really does seem to unfold with ample opportunities (if one’s looking with the right sort of eyes) for encountering, countering, fixing, avoiding, or yes, repeating the sins of the father, such as they may be.
The title of the blog comes from a poem I dashed off in 1994 in (deep) honor of a best friend’s collegiate (and thus seemingly premature, seemingly unprepared) entry into fatherhood and the Da-Da-Dum Dad-Drums of the ages drumroll, a-hem, pregnant with ironies rendered moot by his out of hand reification in being his daughter’s dad.
Fatherhood Poetic 
Hi, I came across your page with looking for information on John Dunn, the ceramics artist.
I am researching the American artist Robert Indiana and believe they knew each other in Edinburgh in the mid-50s and stayed in touch in later years. When they first knew each other Indiana was known by his birth name “Robert Clark,” he changed his name to Indinana in 1958.
If this is accurate I was curious if your father owned any early works or retained any correspondence or photographs from that time. And he he might be willing to talk to us.
We are compiling the Catalogue Raisonné of Indiana’s Paintings and Sculptures and thus are trying to document every work by the artist.
Thank you,
Tim Clifford
Researcher
RI Catalogue Raisonne LLC
c/o Emeline Salama-Caro
45 E 80th Street
New York, NY 10075
Will check.