The closer and closer I get to becoming a full-fledged papa, the more I realize what  a different life I’m about to lead.  I can paint every second bedroom in New York, hang hundreds of cute onsies in the closet, and giggle at all of the tiny sneakers my son already has in his collection pre-birth,...

It’s no secret that I have a bit of an obsession with sneakers.   Fortunately when it comes to fueling said obsession (as well as yours, if you frequent my “Sneakers I Dig” column) NiceKicks.com is right there help.  I discovered the site a few years back, and now I visit it a few...

The closer and closer I get to being a father, the more I start to think about it from a realer perspective.  No longer are there thoughts of “I’ve never even changed a diaper before!”   The “I don’t even know how to hold a baby!”  is slowly fading.  And these...

27 Weeks, wow.  It feels like only yesterday that I was laying in bed at 6am on a Saturday morning, and thinking to myself, “She sure has been in the bathroom for a long time.  She must be taking a pregnancy test again.” because that was the first day that we should have been able to tell. ...

So I’m having a son.  And in general, I’m not the type of person that refers to others by their first names.  Hell, the few times I’ve actually called my wife by her first name rather than honey, baby, or one of our ridiculous pet names she looks at me like I’m drunk.  Maybe...

Sometimes adversity can be a good thing.  As a child we don’t know how to handle negative situations, but some of us learn how to give ourselves therapy and flip what we witnessed as children, in order to chalk it up as real life experience.  This month’s CMG did just that.  Like many,...

With a bunch of potentially exciting craziness happening at my job and my wife feeling uncomfortable yet mostly ok, lately I haven’t quite had the brain power or much inspiration to update this column. You see, I’m not Ugly Betty, and my blog is not about “The Life and Times of Whutsiznaim.”...

“It’s time for you to stop thinking about what’s right for you, and start thinking about what’s right for your family.”  That’s what I told myself as I sat at the desk at my 9-5, contemplating whether or not I should apply for a promotion that would relocate us from...

If you’re anything like me, your dreams of fatherhood include teaching your son to be an even better basketball player than you ever were, so you can live vicariously through them, provided they actually enjoy it. After watching this video, my dreams of creating the uber-guard came crashing down...

Today marks the arrival of 20 weeks of pregnancy, or as I like to call it “Halftime.”  Except this halftime comes sans any sort of break in the action, or meaningful pep talk from the coach aka yours truly, who’s been giving pep talks the whole game, but still feels like my words sound...

(exhales) So here we are: halfway through completion of week 19, and the more things change the more they stay the same.   My wife’s nausea seems like it’s finally gone, but frankly we can’t tell because she has the flu, and no voice which has her talking like Ma from Ma’s Roadhouse...

So for the record, let me start by saying: IT’S A BOY! That’s right, I got my wish and get to live out all of my fatherly fantasy of being the hybrid of Heathcliff Huxtible, Jason Seaver, and of course..Uncle Jesse.  So now that that’s settled, it’s time to come up with a name...

I alluded to a post on baby naming in Vol. 3, but that’ll come later.  For now, there’s another topic at hand. Today we go for our  “16 Week Check-up,” and we’re hoping to find out the gender of the lil thing that grows inside of my wife.  And frankly, I have to be honest...