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.

OCD-Daddy

My wife is a classic Type A personality and even though it’s not diagnosed, I’m pretty sure she’s somewhat OCD. A place for everything and everything in it’s place is her motto. When she watched TV before my parents passed down their old surround sound to us, the volume had to be on an even [...] [...]

March 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)

Ed Zine, Overcoming OCD & Being a Dad

Ed Zine suffered from one of the worst cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder one Harvard psychiatrist had ever seen. He believed that if he lived his life in reverse — rewinding all of his actions during the day in even multiples up to 16,384 — that he could stop time and protect his loved ones from [...] [...]

April 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)