I 'wrote napkins' from the day the girls entered first grade until the day they graduated from high school. I made each rhyme relevant to what was happening in their lives at the time. In 1995, the day my younger daughter, Cara, graduated from college and moved out, she presented me with a shoe box stuffed with old, yellowed, wrinkled napkins that I had written during her twelve year school life. She had saved 150 of them. So I did.
Napkins is unique.
I don't believe many fathers, especially noncustodial ones, have this kind of snapshot commentary on their children's lives. The poems helped me keep a strong bond between my daughters and me during difficult times. Here is a sample entry from the book. It's 160 pages with each poem introduced by a commentary, as in this case. Around prom time, life with a teenage daughter really got peculiar.