60 Days to Heaven

Our son is just approaching six weeks old, and sometimes I look at my expanding belly and tired eyes and wonder how did I go this long without working out.
Not even once.

Tonight’s hunger for the baby is KFC. And the thing about fried chicken, aside from being the stereotypical bane of any black person’s existence, its one of the worst things that I can eat as a father-to-be trying to stay fit for the big birthday coming this Fall.
I’m a sucker for fried chicken. It’s a [...]

The more time I spend with my wife, the more I realize that she is becoming my mother-in-law.
And that I am becoming her father-in-law.
Meet the parents. The people whose ideology, idiosyncrasies and insanity you will eventually inherit. Don’t try to fight it, you are already hardwired for everything you hated or mocked growing up.

Apparently, I am losing my hair.
It’s funny because just a few years ago, I thought that losing hair was not that big of a deal. Just cut it short, and keep it moving. Quite the arrogant statement from someone who wasn’t losing his hair at the time, because now I find the prospect to be [...]

Everyone notices that I’m getting fat these days. When asked about the married life, about the only thing as noticeable as the broad smile on my face is the paunch of my waist. When people assume that the married life is the good life, it truly is the life of wings.
We still date. Often. [...]

I threw out my back on Saturday. My wife is still taking care of me today, even though we had a medium-sized fight this morning.
The details are pretty sketchy, but I’m sure it had something to do with typing something into Mapquest inefficiently and taking issue with the fact that she’s so impatient with the [...]