My wife and I like to tell people that we have an interfanatical relationship. She’s a Mets fan, I’m a Yankee fan. Yes, sometimes in this house it gets ugly.
But not tonight. Tonight we were rooting for a common cause: the San Francisco Giants.
You see when our daughter was born, because she was born within [...]

It was no surprise when the New York Yankees came back in dramatic fashion to beat the Texas Rangers in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series tonight. The real surprise: That I didn’t wake up L with my screams and cheers.
I’ve previously established on this blog (and elsewhere) that I’m a die-hard Yankees [...]

L’s been babbling for months, but today, on the eve of her 15-month birthday, the girl really started talking up a storm.
This morning, she picked up an animal flashcard with the letter G and said, “Gecko.” Then, while Powergirl was making coffee, L looked up at the coffee machine and said, “coffee.” While counting grapes [...]

As you probably know from reading this blog, I’m a die-hard Yankees fan. It was with great pleasure, then, that I read this terrific Mike Vaccaro story about another father celebrating the accomplishments of his child in today’s New York Post.
In a nutshell, the piece is about Jed Curtis, father of Colin Curtis, a reserve [...]

Leave it to L to find stuff I thought I had lost forever. The object of her eureka moment this afternoon: The only foul ball I’ve ever caught during a live Major League Baseball game (which, oddly enough, happened to be exactly ten years ago today, at the old Yankee Stadium, on July 6, 2000).
Some [...]

Amid all of her talking and near-walking, L took a wonderful step back in time today, presenting me with a gift that hearkened back to the era when she was three months old and still fit between my shoulder and my bellybutton.
To wit: She fell asleep on my chest while we sat on the couch.
The [...]

It feels trite to pen a Thanksgiving post about how thankful I am to finally be a dad. Trust me, I’m grateful. Instead, I present to you a list of fathering feats for which I’ll be thankful on Thanksgiving 2027—the first Thanksgiving our little L will celebrate at 18.

10. Convincing my baby that, no matter [...]

Don’t ask much of me in October. Every year for as long as I can remember, I’ve spent inordinate portions of this month on the couch in front of a television watching Major League Baseball playoffs.
The Yankees are my team so naturally I cheer them on. When they’re not in it, I watch anyway, just [...]

Dear Stanford University admissions committee:
I’m writing on behalf of my daughter, L, who yesterday demonstrated that she is worthy of acceptance into the undergraduate class of 2031, and that she is, without question, an utter and complete genius.
Let me paint for you a picture. L, in all of her 23 inches, sat in her vibrating [...]