Modern.
The podcast is supported by produced by the Ilab at WBUR Boston from the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
Modern love essays explore universal questions, but they can also be products of particular moments in our culture.
A snapshot in Time Dominic Zerillo's essay about his son was published in 2012, but it feels very much like it's of a different time.
It reveals how far we have come and how powerful a father's love can be.
Here's Bobby Cannavale reading Dominic's piece a father, a son, and a fighting chance.
When my son Jeff was little, he was a pain in the neck about eating.
On one drive to Huntsville, Alabama, he sobbed for 70 minutes.
I know because I timed it about how we were starving him to death.
We stopped at a diner and ordered him a meal, and he proceeded to eat about four bites before claiming he was full.
You might think I would lose my temper, but this had happened before, so I was prepared with a well planned response.
I reached over and started eating his food bite by bite.
I finished everything on his plate, figuring that would teach him to mind his dinner.
Unfortunately, the plan had a different effect.
Everywhere we went after that, Jeff expected me to finish his meals.
It got so I would only order him meals.
I liked knowing how it would go, and at home, forget about it.
I was a workaholic back then.