The Maths of Being an Older Dad (And Why I Do It Anyway)
I will be 62 when Ellie finishes secondary school. I know this. I think about it more than I let on.
The uncomfortable, honest, occasionally funny questions every older dad eventually asks
I will be 62 when Ellie finishes secondary school. I know this. I think about it more than I let on.
I had twenty years to prepare financially. I still wasn't prepared.
She was four. She meant it as a practical question. I did not take it practically.
Nobody prepared me for the low-grade existential hum that moved in when the baby did.
I had a very clear professional identity at 39. Children did something to it I did not anticipate.
I am, it turns out, a person who cries at things now. I did not used to be.
The toddler phase is not my favourite. I said it. It is out there now.