How Do You Celebrate Father’s Day When Your Father is Gone?

I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with this particular holiday anymore for the rest of my life

Father’s Day is right around the corner and on any normal given year, I would be frantically scouring the internet right now searching for the best gift ideas or deals on some sort of electronic or gadget that my sister and I can buy for our Dad. However, this year is not a normal year.

This year isn’t like years past because this will be the very first Father’s Day that we have to experience without our Dad being here to celebrate with us. This year, Father’s Day will be a particularly depressing one.

My Dad has always received the bulk of the attention from my family on special occasions such as his birthday or holidays like Father’s Day — he always received the better gifts and had the bigger celebrations because he was always the life of the party. He was always the center of attention. And he always expected it to be that way.

So, unfortunately for my Mom, this meant that she always got the short end of the stick when it came to celebrating her special occasions. And as if her past birthdays and holidays weren’t significantly less extravagant enough, this year she lost her husband during a pandemic…on…