About Me

Babble.com's Top 50 Dad Blogs of 2011!I'm a 32-year-old father and husband born and bred in Massachusetts. I have a beautiful son named Will, a gorgeous wife named MJ who is far too hot to have married me, a dog I love and two cats I put up with. I'm a smart-ass former newspaper reporter with a penchant for turning a phrase, who decided to go corporate and is now enjoying life as a content manager for a website.

This blog is not just another "daddy blog." Sure I write about my son, but these pages are a record of my life. I don't just highlight the fun milestones like first steps, I also chronicle the "other stuff." The fights, the torment and the doubt that inevitably come with being a husband and father. It's not always puppy dogs and rainbows, but it is very real. And often there is beauty in the sadness, redemption in the struggle.

Thank you for checking me out, giving me a try and sticking around for the journey. If you'd like to contact me you can email aaron_gouveia (at) yahoo (dot) com.

It’s a Mystery

“Hello sir, welcome to Verizon. What can I help you with today?” With supreme confidence and an air of annoyance, I showed the clerk my poor Blackberry. Nothing was cracked or broken on the outside, but the screen was totally unreadable and pixelated beyond belief. I could still receive and make calls, but I had [...] [...]

November 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Little Things

Check out Dad-Blogs. Or I will hunt you down. I’m not an overly positive person. So even though it’s Thanksgiving time and every blogger on Earth is making lists of all the wonderful things in their lives, I just can’t bring myself to go along with the herd. So I’m compromising. The following are things [...] [...]

November 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)

Liberty & Justice For All, Not Some

There is a FANTASTIC story making the rounds on media outlets everywhere right now, and it involves a 10-year-old Arkansas boy named Will Phillips, who got in trouble in his public school when he refused to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Now some of you might be thinking “Screw that little brat, who [...] [...]

November 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Bad Parent Club

Hi. My name is Aaron. And I’m a bad parent. Not bad in the sense that anyone needs to call Child & Family Services on me, it’s more bad in the form of not being a politically correct parent. And, in some cases, just being lazy. It means I sometimes take shortcuts when it comes [...] [...]

November 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)

Waiting is the Hardest Part

It’s Fatherhood Friday at Dad-Blogs so when you’re done here, head there. The warning signs came out of nowhere earlier this week. It caught me off guard. It caught everyone off guard. I quickly realized whatever was wrong was not going to fix itself, so I reluctantly enlisted the help of professionals. I filled out [...] [...]

November 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
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