Doc Brown Can’t Take Me Back, But Dad’s Still Here at 80

You are here: Home » Doc Brown Can’t Take Me Back, But Dad’s Still Here at 80 The boys going on the Alpine Coaster. Sevierville, TN. July 28, 2025 September 15, 2025 Holy crap! My dad just turned 80. Where did the time go? He’s probably the one asking that question more than anyone, but I can’t help but ask it myself. Einstein had a whole theory about time, relativity, space, and all that genius stuff—maybe I should have paid more attention in school, because right now all I want is for time to slow down. Or better yet, give me Doc Brown from Back to the Future—fire up the DeLorean, hit 88 miles per hour, and let me go back to the moments that mattered most. Just don’t let me run into my younger self, that might break the space-time continuum, and then I’d never get to see Dad turn 80. Most of us — not all, but most — would love the chance to revisit the simpler times in life. To see grandparents again, to have friends closer, to be surrounded by the kind of...