Father's Day: A Slap In Public

Father' s Day usually means family, gifts, and forced smiles.

As an architect, I build strong foundations, but my relationship with my father felt like glass.

This year, I was going to his studio apartment, not just with a gift, but to retrieve my mother' s vintage watch-the last thing I had of hers.

But before I even got inside, a call shattered the fragile peace.

"Brenda," my father' s new, live-in girlfriend, was already on the offensive.

She claimed the watch was hers, a "payment" for her "service."