Hi there. Welcome to our new parenting blog. It's called "I, Breeder" ... mostly because all the good names have been taken since, after all, the baby blog phenomenon took off in earnest (and we do mean earnest) a good 2 or 3 years ago. Undaunted, my good and kind editors here at Newsweek were so taken with a thoughtful and, let's be honest, brilliant essay I wrote about my generation of fathers that they figured in their infinite -- what? wisdom? folly? pity? -- well, infinite something that I deserved some sort of forum in which to expound upon All Things Parently. So here I go. This is entry number one. Welcome to our new baby/parenting blog. Who am I that you should devote precious minutes of your life to reading? Well. A little bio:

Name: Brian
Age: 32
Location: Brooklyn, NY, by way of Los Angeles, San Diego, Grenoble, Washington DC and Boston
Parenting Cred: I have a frighteningly brilliant and beautiful (stop me if you've heard this before) 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter that we'll call, for now, "Freya" because that is her name
Blogging Cred: Some anonymous dabblings, mostly because I was afraid I'd get fired. But that is for me to know and you to find out on your ownsome.
Looks: Astonishingly handsome.

Um. What else? I sent a little e-mail around to my fellow Newsweek procreators this week, inviting them to chime in. If you want something like an "I, Breeder" mission statement, I guess this is about as close as you can come.

Finally, here's an IM conversation I had last night with a childless friend after my wee angel was all tucked in and dreaming her dinosaur dreams (names have been changed to protect the guilty):

Brian: still at work?
Not Brian: mmhmm
Brian: haha. i am home drinking scotch
Not Brian: nice
Brian: gonna get a buzz on to write my first blog entry
Brian: wtf should i say?
Not Brian: say, i'm brian braiker. i'm drunk. and a parent.
Brian: ha. no. how about: this is my blog. you clicked here once, so i have your isp. if you don't come back i'll hunt you down.
Not Brian: you should tell a funny story about freya
Not Brian: and then be like, "and then i got to thinking..."
Not Brian: or some carrie bradshaw s--t
Brian: "i accidentally put on one of her diapers tonight"
Brian: "and then i got to thinking...no wonder she isn't potty trained yet. this is great!"
Not Brian: see, perfect. it's written!
Brian: i am going to cut and paste this convo for an entry