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I'm a 33-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.

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Who Are These People?

I love pictures. If you’re anything like me and my wife, you have pictures everywhere. Hanging on walls, resting on bookcases, stored on the computer and even collecting dust in the basement. You remember, when people actually used to have film developed? Anyway… I’ve found that, especially after you have kids, life tends to morph [...] [...]

October 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)

Gone Viral

The last 48 hours have been nothing short of mind-blowing. I posted a recap of Alexandra’s story on the Good Men Project site on Saturday. By Monday morning, it exploded all over the Internet. It landed on Salon, Jezebel, BoingBoing, Rachel Maddow’s blog and Slate to name a few. The You Tube video of my [...] [...]

October 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 76 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Wildebeest

Will is obsessed with dinosaurs the way Tiger Woods chases hookers. We bought him a tub filled with dinosaurs and other creatures of all sizes. His favorite is the Brachiosaurus, probably because it’s the largest and the coolest looking. But surprisingly, out of all the T-Rexes, stegosauruses, triceratops and anklosauruses, his second most prized possession [...] [...]

October 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Parenting Groove

I’m currently in what professional baseball players like to call “The Zone.” Nobody knows exactly how you enter The Zone, but once you’re there you know it immediately. Hitters see the ball as if it’s coming toward them in slow motion. They’re guessing correctly on pitches as if they’re reading the pitcher’s mind. The bat [...] [...]

October 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

It’s Fucking Football!

I have been attending New England Patriots games for approximately 25 of my 31 years on this Earth. The Patriots’ old stadium was a piece of shit. It was a dilapidated amalgamation of concrete and misery. We peed in troughs instead of urinals. Some of us pissed in the sinks. Our bodies ached from sitting [...] [...]

October 18th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
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