I get about 3 hours of sleep a night. I expect those hours to be blissful. Last night, the entire 3 hours was one extended nightmare. It went like this. My friend BJ rented a house for a weekend-long party, and he didn’t invite me. A lot of my friends were there. Somehow I stumbled […]
He came 6 hours before the scheduled C-section. My wife went into labor around midnight, so we got in the car and ran every traffic light between Wilton and Stamford Hospital. I pulled the car up at the maternity ward’s front entrance and just left it there with the keys in it. We rushed inside […]
The place will be ready.
Will I?
In 3 days, I will be a father. Again. The next little guy is scheduled for a c-section at 7:30am on Monday morning. Lots of people have been asking me how I feel about this. It’s been hard to give an honest answer. Until about 24 hours ago, the honest and true answer was
All this talk about Marissa Mayer becoming the first pregnant CEO of a Fortune 500 company….it got me thinking. I’m excited for new barriers to be broken down, no doubt, but the coverage made me think I was in a time warp. Aren’t we past this, people? Can we focus on the issue at hand […]
My grandmother’s name is Barbara. Apparently she was occasionally clumsy, and would drop things. Particularly in the kitchen. So a plate would crash to the floor and shatter, and from the next room, where my grandfather was probably watching sports on a black and white TV, he would yell “NOW WHAT DON’T WE HAVE, BARBARA?!?!” […]
My wife hates the word “moist.” I don’t know why, but she always has. It’s like nails on a chalkboard for her. Apparently it’s pretty common. A family friend recently showed me how to create these cool text shortcuts on the iPhone. You can type in “omw” for example, and auto-correct will change it to […]
I was coming straight from the office, so I met my wife at the movie theater. She was already inside. I handed the cashier my credit card. “I ordered online.” “Just the one?” I tried not to blush. ——————– I knew I was in trouble before the movie even started. The first preview was for […]