 MY FATHER’S HEART: A SON’S JOURNEY
An extraordinary story of an all-too-ordinary scenario: A father dies, a son remains, and the loss casts a long shadow across a generation. Rich in evocative detail of time, place, and family, it is a powerful memoir of love, forgiveness, and finding oneself.
Published by Da Capo Press
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Steve McKee and the FAQs of “My Father’s Heart.”
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 The “Highlights for Parents” Web page of “Highlights for Children” interviewed Steve along with three other Dads about their lives as fathers.
Not long ago, Steve returned home to York, Pennsylvania, the setting for much of MY FATHER’S HEART, to appear on a pair of television shows, "Medically Speaking" on WRCT, and "American Visions" on WGCB-TV. Check back soon to see a netcast of both of these programs.
Steve spoke about MY FATHER’S HEART, and about his experiences coping with heart disease, as a featured speaker during the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association national convention in Dallas in April.
Steve was also in York in March to speak to health-care providers gathered at the Susan P. Byrnes Health Education Center.
The York Daily Record excerpted a short section of MY FATHER’S HEART about the time Steve and his C.Y.O. basketball team took a shower with the great Baltimore Colts of the 1960s!
Steve was the keynote speaker at at the 26th annual black-tie fund-raising gala for the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. The event, attended by nearly 700 people, raised $700,000 for cardiovascular research and education. Steve combined a reading of excerpts from the final chapter of MY FATHER’S HEART — the night Steve watched his father die of a heart attack — with reflections of growing up under the specter of heart disease.
Steve was the guest speaker at "Hearth Healthy: A Family Affair" sponsored by the Health Education Center and Cardiovascular Services at Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna, Ohio, in the fall. Steve read portions of MY FATHER’S HEART that tell the story of finding out he has heart disease and talked to the audience about his father’s life and how he (Steve) had promised himself he would always always always always keep himself in good physical shape. To prove that point, at the end of his presentation Steve climbed on his Concept2 rowing machine (which had made the trip with him!) and gave a 12-minute, 2,300-meter tutorial on proper rowing technique.
Also last fall Steve read a variety of sections from MY FATHER’S HEART as part of the Wordsmiths Reading Series at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
Steve was back in York as a featured speaker at the "Go Series" at York’s Martin Library. Appropriately, the theme was "Go Back to Your Future." Steve read excerpts from MY FATHER’S HEART about how he came to grow up in York and invited audience members to share their experiences of growing up in York as well.
"My goal is for every high school junior in the state of Pennsylvania to be reading MY FATHER’S HEART!" So declared Steve in a presentation last fall to the Pennsylvania Council of the Teachers of English and Language Arts (PCTELA; pronounced pick-TELL-uh) at its annual statewide convention in Lancaster. Steve talked to about 65 secondary English teachers and has begun working with a few to help introduce MY FATHER’S HEART into their schools as part of summer reading lists.
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Steve was a guest on the TODAY Show. You can see the video here. Read about the tie — yes, the tie!– Steve wore on the Today show
My Father’s Heart was interviewed by Scott Simon of Morning Edition
Steve was a guest on the Diane Rehm Show. Read more about it and listen to the episode.
Cardiologist Mehmet Oz on the Oprah & Friends Radio Network recently talked with Steve about his father’s heart. The interview aired on February 19.
Listen to an interview Steve did with Kate Sullivan of Wordsmitten — for "the people, the books, and the business of writing & publishing."
Steve participated in a reading as part of the Varsity Letters Reading Series at the Happy Ending bar & grill in New York City. Steve was also featured in the VL’s online publication, Gelf magazine, where he talked about how “My Father’s Heart” came to life.
My Father’s Heart was excerpted in the
Washington Post.
Steve was a guest speaker in the new “Men’s Zone” of the Women’s Health Expo at Tech City in Kingston, New York. He spoke about his legacy of heart disease and gave a demonstration of the Concept2 Rowing Machine, which he writes about in “My Father’s Heart.” |
