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The Greatest Night of my Life, One Year Later

I held the fate of two men in my hands. One of them had to die, while the other would be spared. It would ultimately be my decision which one woke up the next morning. I tormented myself over this choice not because I didn’t know who I wanted dead, but because I wanted neither alive. Both people had wronged me. Both were dangerous. And both were about to do terrible things. Neither deserved to live, yet one had to. In…

4 Months as a Dad: 15 Things I’ve Learned

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…

20 Reasons Why I Can’t Wait to be a Dad

I’ve mentioned a few times already that I’m going to be a dad soon, and I can’t wait. I feel like I am one of the few guys that was excited to see a cute baby when I was younger. Maybe this makes me weird, but it also makes me happy that I’m getting to keep one. That’s right, I made a baby so that I could keep one. I’m done playing with other people’s kids. I get this one. Anyway,…