Gimme some sugar, baby!

But Owen, who is 19, and I also share a deeper and darker knowledge than what usually passes between fathers and their teenage sons.

I’ve been treated for an aggressive form of prostate cancer over the past year. It’s too soon to know whether I’ll need more treatment. So for now, I’m still a patient. Owen’s liver failed two springs ago, suddenly and for no apparent reason. He has since mostly recovered, and is in his sophomore year at Dartmouth College. But he’s still a patient, too.