goodbyeprincess

About Me

I’m a 30-year-old father and husband living on a peninsula 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 newspaper reporter with a penchant for turning a phrase and a sense of humor as dry as the Sahara.This blog is mainly about my life as a new dad, but I’m also prone to talk about marriage, sports, politics and pop culture. I’m a Boston sports fanatic and my hatred for all New York teams knows no bounds. I’m honest to a fault, prone to cross a few lines but simultaneously heartfelt and sincere. But whether I’m describing the time I manually pumped my wife’s breast while she was nursing or writing about how much my son enriches my life, the only promise I can make is I’ll update often and I can’t help but be passionate. Thanks for stopping by!

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 [...] [...]

Talk Is Cheap, But Necessary

This story bothers the shit out of me. If you don’t want to click over, basically the story is about a growing number of parents who rely almost exclusively on text messaging, e-mails and instant messages to communicate “secretly” so little ears don’t pick up on it. From the woman in the passenger seat of [...] [...]

What to do About #2

I think it was something like 15 hours after Will was born that my grandmother called and wanted to know when we planned on having another one. She was kidding. Kind of. Not really. MJ and I always planned on having two kids.  Ideally they’d be about three years apart because we never wanted to [...] [...]

Teen Pregnancy is Only for the Rich

If you haven’t seen it yet, you have to check out this PSA regarding teen pregnancy, courtesy of — wait for it — Bristol Palin. Yup, that’s right.  The daughter of former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who got pregnant at 17, is speaking out for abstinence to prevent teen pregnancy. But it’s not who [...] [...]

Will 2.0

Two years ago, if you asked me to describe myself, I would’ve said I was a husband. That I was a writer. A loyal friend. Not to mention a really, really, ridiculously good looking militant Boston sports fan. With the exception of the Derek Zoolander quote, I’m still all those things. But on April 3, [...] [...]