Cat's in the Cradle and the Old Man Has Something to Say

When We Can Find the Time

Harry Chapin’s song ‘Cat’s in the Cradle’ came out in 1974. I was a kid then, 17 years old, so the song and I have grown up together. It tells the story of a father and son relationship, and how their roles relative to each other change over the course of their lives. My own Dad died a couple years before the song debuted, and I’ve been blessed to be…