I am not an artist. I am not a poet. As much as I enjoy writing and I consider myself a good writer, even using that term is a stretch. I wanted to write nothing. I wanted everything I had poured onto the keyboard for the last 24 hours to stand alone, unaltered by anything I could add to it later. At various points in the evening, I had to force myself to stop thinking about what I could share and…
Our daughter, Hayley, turned 4 months old today. Good for her. More importantly, I have now been a father for one third of a year. In these 18 weeks of experience, I feel that I thrived at my new job as “dad”, and have compiled a list of things that I have learned along the way. Due to my excellence as a father, every item on this list is unequivocally correct and should be accepted without question. After all, I…