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.

Santa or Religion: Which is the Lie?

But in the end, I don’t see how perpetuating the Santa myth is any worse than spreading the absolute fairytale that is organized religion. At least with Santa there are presents and cookies involved. That beats eating human flesh blood and having to fork over 10 percent of my salary to God any day. [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 57 comments - (Comments are closed)

An Unusual Easter Tradition

You guys all know I’m not religious and I don’t believe in God. Therefore Easter really doesn’t have much meaning to me in its traditional form. But that doesn’t mean I won’t be passing down an Easter tradition to Will. Sure I may not believe that a man was nailed to a cross, was buried [...] [...]

April 12th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)