Jedidiah Gant

As November ended, we realized Stacy had the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day off; we deliberated about what we could do that didn’t include our normal hometown routines. We were up for a winter adventure. With Oliver, long car trips are a challenge, so we resort to other forms of transportation to travel […]

In August, Oliver and I both started schoolagain. I returned to get my master’s in animation and new media from North Carolina State University’s College of Design; Oliver headed to day care. The timing wasn’t right for his first attempt more than a year ago. He was only three months old when Stacy and I […]

Sleep is a tough subject for most new parents. Comparing notes on arrangements and patterns often dominates early conversations among couples. Stacy and I rarely talked about it with others, though, as it brings with it a handful of bigger hot-button issuesnamely, overall parenting style. For our son, Oliver, it’s always been a situation of […]

For me, birthdays have long been the ultimate holiday: I tend to buy a new shirt for the occasion and, sometimes, spend a week or the better part of a month celebrating. This yearmy 30th birthday, but my first as a fatherinvolved a family cookout, a candy-filled pink flamingo piñata in the rain outside, a […]

What can change in such a short amount of time stuns. We long ago settled on a basic system of timeseconds make minutes make hours make days make weeks make years and so forth, with exceptions for saving daylight and dealing with that extra day. But what that time means for each of usand, as […]

A few weeks ago, my wife and I stood in a friend’s kitchen talking to our Bradley Birthing Class instructor. We hadn’t seen Laura since a few months after Oliver was born. As we relayed the details of the intervening timeI had decided to quit my job and stay at homeLaura said she’s been seeing […]

On June 21, the summer solstice, my wife and I were awaiting the arrival of our firstborn. We mostly wished for a healthy child, but we hoped, too, that perhaps he or she (we didn’t know at the timeturns out his name is Oliver) would be born on the longest day of the year. He […]

Six years ago, I took a two-week vacation from my new architecture job in London to visit my family in North Carolina for the holidays. The phone rang, and it was my boss back across the Atlantic: The office was closing. All 20 employees had been “made redundant.” It had been my dream jobworking for […]