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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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Graham Cracker Life Lessons

My son’s deep-seated need for symmetry and consistency can really infuriate me. I’m very messy. I understand why you’d think journalists are very detail-oriented people who sit in offices filled with color-coded and alphabetized file folders, but my desk is ridiculously cluttered. My office is littered with hundreds of small, thin notebooks full of my [...] [...]

February 26th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Dark Side of the Internet

My  “Confronting Life” article went viral over at the Good Men Project on Oct. 23, 2010. It currently has 775 comments and 678 people “liked” it on Facebook. It’s the most widely read piece they’ve had on the site and even today—four months exactly after it was first posted—it’s third on the “most popular articles [...] [...]

February 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)

Our Toy Story on Ice Experience

I’m not a fan of figure skating or most musicals. As big of a sports fan as I am, I don’t even like hockey since I can’t skate a lick. Basically if it has anything to do with ice I’m probably tuning out. But on Saturday, the Boston Bruins’ home ice was transformed into a [...] [...]

February 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

No Apologies

I was picking Will up from preschool yesterday when I turned the corner and saw him and another boy pushing each other. Normally this would be no big deal, but this has been an issue all week. When we ask him what he did at school, he says “(Name of kid) punched me.” Then he [...] [...]

February 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)

We Lost the Baby

“Oh please, not again.” That was my initial reaction after MJ called me late Friday morning to tell me she was having cramps. It’s funny, because despite never having been pregnant (and obviously lacking the anatomical requirements for such a feat), I believe I have an unbelievable handle on women’s cramping. The ones in her [...] [...]

February 14th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 56 comments - (Comments are closed)
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