"I don't golf, I don't have a recliner, and I tell my kids not to ever buy me those Velcro tennis shoes, " he says.

She complains that ever since her husband retired he has become a couch potato. It seems like he only gets up to eat, use the bathroom, or go to sleep.

I was sitting outside in a blue-and-white striped deckchair.

We finished the perfect day off by sitting on beach chairs at a white-sand beach, watching the sunset together.

My unsentimental, overworked father? leaning back in his recliner, his burdens chased away by tears of joy at hearing his youngest child play his favorite song.