Archive for the 'Tales of Fatherhood' Category

Blogging for posterity

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Though my ashley may not be able to read now, perhaps the records of this blog would survive long enough for her to read and relive the days when she was just born, a babe-in-arms, an infant crying for milk, a toddler crawling around and struggling to take her first steps, to a kid running […]

When she falls sick

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

My world starts spinning the other direction entirely when my daughter falls sick. Kept awake all night rocking her to sleep, measuring and administering her medications, sponging her down every twenty minutes, and just checking on her. That, and falling asleep at work, completely knocked out through lunch-time. Having to cozax her to eat and […]

D-day Zero

Tuesday, November 30th, 1999

It wasn’t the day that she showed me the urine pregnancy test kit, with the faintly positive second line. It wasn’t when I saw her, with her belly growing rounder, her bust becoming fuller and more voluptuous. It wasn’t even when we saw, on the screen of the ultrasound machine, the beating heart, the flexed […]