I don’t know when the late Erma Bombeck, whose column appeared in hundreds of newspapers for 30 years, wrote “The things a dad does.” All I know is that I read it a long time ago, loved it, and saved it. And every Father’s Day, I reread it because it captures a way of life that existed for most of the 20th century but doesn’t anymore. Bombeck’s piece is short, just 300 words.“When I was a little kid, a father was like the light in the refrigerator,” it begins…