Jeff Tiegs

I know what I like.

I know what keeps me reading.

And I was really concerned that it would jump around too much and people would get lost.

And I was like, I'm just going to go for it.

So two things came out of that that were unintended.

Well, that was intentional.

I was hoping it would grab people's attention.

My boys read it.

And I have to fight back tears to talk about this.

And both my boys, they just know me better.

And they know why I was gone.

A three-year-old boy, a four-year-old boy, they don't know why.

Again, this goes back to that question we were talking about.

Why does dad choose to leave us over and over and over?

Are we not important to him?

Again, these aren't things that are heavy on my son's minds.

They're incredibly healthy young men.

But of course, it's just natural.

And there was a level of closure there and recognition and understanding

on what I was doing, why I was doing it, why it was important, and why even though they hadn't volunteered to be part of it, they were.