Marriage Is Just An Elaborate Game That

I'm Not Smart Enough To Write About Something That Didn't Actually Happen To Me. But I Couldn't Write A Space Movie If You Put A Gun To My Head.

I've Come To Realize That Making It Your Life's Work To Be Different Than Your Parents Is Not Only Hard To Do, It's A Dumb Idea. Not Everything We Found Fault With Was Necessarily Wrong; We Were Right, For Example, To Resent, As Kids, Being Told When To Go To Bed. We'd Be Equally Wrong, As Parents, To Let Our Kids Stay Up All Night. To Throw Out All The Tools Of Parenting Just Because Our Parents Used Them Would Be Like Making Yourself Speak English Without Using Ten Letters Of The Alphabet; It's Hard To Do.

But The Two Of Them Together, Broke My Heart. Olympia And Peter, Those Scenes... When They're Kissing In Their 20s And Then Kissing In Their 70s, That's What It Is. And They Had Never Met Five Minutes Before They Shot Those Scenes.

We Had The Boy's Name Picked Out, But We Didn't Have A Girl's. When He Turned Out To Be A Boy, We Were So Relieved. Literally, In The Middle Of Contracting And Pushing, And With My Wife Being Drugged - Out And Half - Lucid, We Were Still Coming Up With Names.

And In That Time, I Lost My Dad And Had Kids Of My Own. It Was Like, Ok, I Get It Now. I Know What Fatherhood Is All About. And You Look At Your Parents Differently