There are places (and moments) that I will always remember
My wife and daughter sang this song together night before our son was born. It’s one of those moments that a Daddy will always remember.
Resolution update: May 2012
I am six days late in posting my mostly lack of progress in terms of my yearly goals. On a positive note, I still have more than half of the…
A recommendation, a quandary and a stupid book that belongs in the trash
The books that are most popular with our three year old daughter eventually find their way off the shelf and into a wicker basket in her bedroom. As these books…
I brought my son home from the hospital and found myself in the midst of Hartford’s Puerto Rican parade.
When I picked up my newborn son from the hospital on Sunday and finally brought him and my wife home, I had the unexpected pleasure of driving through Hartford’s Puerto…
You can’t lie to a man with a penis
My son was circumcised yesterday. I was not at the hospital at the time (appropriately enough, I was playing golf), but the doctor told my wife that Charlie didn’t cry…
Carlos Fuentes understood me before I understood me
Carlos Fuentes said in a 1981 Paris Review interview: “When your life is half over, I think you have to see the face of death in order to start writing…
Stop trying to monopolize the angst, ladies.
Allison Winn Scotch, in a piece in Psychology Today entitled Balancing Motherhood and Career, writes: And herein lies the catch that so many women wrestle with: we want lives with…
Statistically speaking, am I the best husband and father of all time? And should I make my wife aware of these favorable numbers?
From a recent Wall Street Journal piece entitled Are Dads the New Moms? : A recent U.S. Census Bureau report found that 32% of fathers with working wives routinely care…
What’s in a name? Several literary references.
It’s a boy! In case you haven’t heard, my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby boy yesterday named Charles Wallace Dicks. Charlie was born at 3:09 PM. He is…
My career as a professional best man is hindered only by a lack of teleportation
I had a third person inquire about hiring me as a professional best man this week. Unlike the first two, this potential client lives within the United States but on…
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