men from venus in brooklyn

When my wife and I first met and started dating, having kids was not in the conversation. We were living our lives and we were both in our late twenties. We had time.  It wasn't something that came up at first, but eventually we had "that conversation". We got married in 2005 and it wasn't long before we left Manhattan and moved to Brooklyn, the baby capital of the world. We saw hipsters pushing babies in strollers down the street. It was like every woman's biological clock was ticking to a new beat in Brooklyn. There must have been something in the water.  

And we didn't want to wait to have kids.  We didn't want to postpone the inevitable.  And even though more women than ever are child-free, my wife wanted a baby.  And so did I.  And then my wife got pregnant.  While we were on vacation in Akumal, Mexico. There must have been something in the margaritas.

(2 years and 1 daughter later, we went back to Akumal)

And now there are more dads like me walking these Brooklyn streets with kids in tow.  Babies slug over backs like guitars and Brooklyn replacing Manhattan as "the" place to live. Because nothing ever stays the same.  Especially in this city.  And the only reality we know of is the present.  And the present is new. And the present is the future.  And we're not like the dads from the past. We're like men from the future.  We're like men from Venus. That's the way that some people look at us it seems.  But while these "boomers" watch from their brownstones, we enter new ground.  And we can take a ferry to get there.  Because where we're going, we don't need roads. 

BRD