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There are moments you remember all your life
There are moments you wait for and dream of all your life
This is one of those moments

— From the film “Yentl,” lyrics by Marilyn & Alan Bergman

Those words ran through my mind recently as I sat with my daughter, waiting to walk her down the aisle to be married.

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I was 38 when M.E. was born, and more than a bit ambivalent about fatherhood. Being the last baby boomer born in my family, I wasn’t used to having babies around the house – the disruption, the smell, the responsibility, the stuff. As her delivery date drew near, I found my fretting more and more about what lay ahead. What had I gotten myself into?

But as happens with most new fathers, when I first saw M.E. in the delivery room and the doctor placed her in my arms, everything changed, wonderfully and forever. Choking back tears, I fell hopelessly in love with this little girl, her button nose, her rosy cheeks, her perfectly formed tiny fingers and toes.

Her happiness and wellbeing became the only things that mattered to me. Many nights I........

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