Writing Pairs

Dads do good reading to their kids. But there is a special bond in writing with them as well, demonstrated most recently by an Ivy League pair, a son writing from a father's notes and a Catholic duo.

The Ivies are Wolff's, son John and father Rick. They have just released “Harvard Boys: A Father and Son’s Adventures in Minor League Baseball," These dispatches from the front of the son's minor league career (and a father's commentary) parallels the father's earlier memoir of his time, “What’s a Nice Harvard Boy Like You Doing in the Bushes?” Among the other bonding that went on was a building of distaste for Harvard baseball.

Far from distaste, father-daughter Robert Curoe and daughter Carol expected their new book, "Are There Closets in Heaven," to serve as something to help heal rifts in the Catholic Church. But, according to a report in The Star Tribune, that was not the case even in a local church.

Rather than bonding in the writing or reaction, Murray Tucker bonded with his late father Joe in the research for his just-released "Screamer: The Forgotten Voice of Pittsburgh Steelers." Joseph, of course, is the over exuberant voice in the title, the postscript answer to the trivia question of how many announcers have the Steeler's had.

** Reading to writing together. Not a bad father-child path. **