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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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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)

Hanging On Too Tight?

“When are you gonna get rid of this thing?” MJ was on the computer when she growled the previous sentence at me. I had no idea what she was talking about, but I assumed it was something of little consequence or just a mild annoyance that was eating at her. But when she turned the [...] [...]

September 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)

Thanks Dad

It’s been more than two weeks since I detailed our ordeal with little Alex, and I’m still getting crap from anti-choice zealots. Like these gems: I am confused. Why is the couple supposed to feel better about having an abortion and cutting the obviously living baby’s life short? Why is that supposed to be better [...] [...]

July 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 28 comments - (Comments are closed)

My Joker

How does a parent even begin to move past the trauma of losing an unborn child? Well, it helps when you already have a lunatic 2-year-old who has you shaking your head and cracking up at every turn. This is what MJ and I saw when we checked on him last night, an hour after [...] [...]

July 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)

Goodbye Princess. And Thank You.

“Life has been cloudy and gray. Let’s take the bad memories and put them away. The sun has come out oh we’ve waited so long. All of the hard days are gone.” Alexandra Christine Gouveia. MJ and I don’t know for sure if we were having a boy or a girl. It was still kind [...] [...]

July 18th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 81 comments - (Comments are closed)
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