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It doesn't matter how patient you are, or how well you deal with big changes. Getting pissed on day after day starts to wear on a person. I'm not speaking figuratively here. I've literally been peed on more times than I care to count over the past few weeks. Mercifully, I think we are finally …
I don't want to come across too harsh, but there's real evil in this world. I know you know that. But I was shocked to learn that the makers of kids' toys are some of the most evil. Like, a sinister and genuinely wicked kind of evil. I promise you, I can't possibly understate this …
You may have noticed there hasn't been a new story in a little while. That's because my precious daughter was born a couple weeks ago. Before that, I'd been busy working on a couple other stories, but I wasn't able to get them finished prior to the baby being born. There was a point late …
I was sitting in a puddle. And I was sitting in a puddle in a corn field. I was sitting in a puddle in an Indiana corn field in the middle of winter with a parachute tied to my waist, I was missing a shoe and my glasses, and my pants were at my ankles. Oh, and I was bleeding.
PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 This is Part 4 of a four-part series. Click above for the rest of the story. Awhile later we were able to make our way back to our room in the post-partum wing. The idea of being a dad hadn’t sunk in, and it …
PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 This is Part 3 of a four-part series. Click above for the rest of the story. I will never remember exactly what she said, but it was something like this: this was a precipitous labor. Generally with breech babies, the docs will opt for …
PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 This is Part 2 of a four-part series. Click above for the rest of the story. We arrived at the room no more than thirty seconds later, and as soon as we arrived, so did the others. First it was our L&D nurse. Then …
PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 This is Part 1 of a four-part series. Click above for the rest of the story. The Miracle of Birth. It’s a phrase I've heard periodically in life. And until one goes through the birth experience, it can be difficult to understand what …
