Fatherhood

Letter from Korea, November 2013

Fri, 11/22/2013 - 22:36 - conor_o_reilly
 

Suwon, South Korea
November 2013

Dear Ireland

A Letter to My Seven Month Old Daughter

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 17:58 - conor_o_reilly

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Dear +1,

Look at you with your smiles and shitty nappies, you are the world too me. You may not realise it as you are undoubtedly focusing on something you just saw and must now touch, but it’s true, you mean so much to me.

I am writing to you today as I wish to part with some advice. As you are young it is hard for you to understand much, and as you are young it is your natural inclination to believe that you are 100% correct about everything. If the truth be told you will not learn the fallacy of this until you are, well probably close to your own deathbed many years from now.

Letter from Korea, December 2012

Sun, 12/16/2012 - 17:38 - conor_o_reilly

Suwon, South Korea
December, 2012

Dear Ireland

There are moments when I completely forget that I’m a father now, and I lapse into my old routine, desperate for something which I used to think was enjoying. Things are a little different now. It’s not that those things which I used to be entertained by are no longer entertaining, as they are somewhat, it’s just that these moments where I forget don’t last long. I’m either jolted from a daydream into activity by a gurgle or yelp, a call from Herself (who seems perpetually busy), or I just remember.  It’s a nice realisation to have over and over again.

Old Man Syndrome

Sun, 11/25/2012 - 20:25 - conor_o_reilly

On Friday morning at around 6.40, while many were still in bed or still only waking up, I was standing in the delivery room of the maternity hospital in Dongtan where myself and Herself have been frequenting on and off over the past nine months. Staring right in our faces was a tiny, screaming child, whose skin was still blue and covered in quickly drying blood having just being removed from the womb of my beloved wife. I will not lie. I cried at that very moment, but I did my best not to show it.

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Letter from Korea, June 2012.

Thu, 06/28/2012 - 23:37 - conor_o_reilly

Suwon
South Korea
June 28, 2012

 

Dear Ireland,

Are ye well? I have been doing my best to find the time to write this month’s letter before the month is out for a very good reason. As much as I would like to write about Ireland’s disastrous showing in Euro 2012 and my efforts to watch each game at 4am, there are more important things to note in this month’s letter. The whole of my world as an Irishman in Korea has suddenly changed from its original Hemingway-in-Paris aspirations to an all too realistic situation.

Becoming a Father

Tue, 05/24/2011 - 16:37 - leeskoreablog
It's taking a while to upload, but I'm managing to stay online through a single bar of free wireless reception from someone downstairs. Whoever you are, 'bon3F,' I salute you for your radiowaves of generousity, allowing this young blogger to publish his thoughts.

Let's pick up where we left off...
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