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!

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I was looking at a friend’s Facebook page yesterday. She joked about losing her cell phone and feeling helpless because she doesn’t have a land line to fall back on. I don’t know why, but the fact that most people I know don’t have land lines anymore really made me think. Everyone had a land [...] [...]

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 [...] [...]

Make It Stop

When MJ called me yesterday she was sobbing so hard I couldn’t understand what she was trying to say. “Honey are you OK? What’s wrong? Why are you crying?? What’s going on??” “Baby…ask me…can’t do it,” was all I could make out through her tears and grief. I was in my office with my two [...] [...]

All Out of Miracles

It was going to be a comeback story for the ages. Seriously. Even though we had seen ultrasound after ultrasound of the baby’s legs together and not moving, this time was going to be different. MJ warned me not to be optimistic because she didn’t want to see me crushed. But her resignation and morbid [...] [...]

Kids Really Are Great

In the span of about 12 hours, my son did two things that absolutely thrilled me. The first one made me happy, but for selfish reasons. You see, I was sitting on my porcelain throne enjoying the only alone time a man ever gets when I reached for the toilet paper and was left grasping [...] [...]