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Is Sara an Antisemitic Ukrainian? | One Baby, One Exhausted Dad, and a Sinister Plan to Deprive Him of Sleep, Break His Back, and Publicly Humiliate Him by Screaming

An exhausted single father begins to suspect that his nine-month-old daughter, Sara, is carrying out a carefully planned operation involving sleep deprivation, a broken back, and public humiliation through screaming. A darkly comic story about sleepless nights, a strong-willed baby, and one father who knows exactly who holds all the cards.

Unconditional Love: The Unexpected Challenge of Being My Daughter’s Favorite Person

For most of my life, I dreamed of experiencing unconditional love. After a long and exhausting four-year surrogacy journey, I finally became a father at the age of 52, and my daughter Sara brought into my life a love unlike anything I had ever known.

But as our bond grew stronger, I began to discover an unexpected challenge. Sara’s attachment to me became so intense that she often rejected the company of other people who loved her deeply—especially her grandmother, who adores her more than anyone else in the world.

In this deeply personal reflection, I explore the joy, responsibility, and difficult questions that come with being a single father, and the realization that sometimes the greatest act of love is helping a child learn to let go.

A Lesser Child of GOD | How Sara Changed My Relationship with God, Faith, and Myself

For years, I blamed God for everything that was missing from my life—my failures, my loneliness, and the feeling that no matter how hard I tried, my prayers went unanswered. As my frustration grew, I abandoned traditional prayer and replaced it with daily conversations with God, hoping He would eventually listen.

Everything changed when I began my surrogacy journey. For the first time, my prayers were no longer about me. They were about the child I longed to bring into the world. During four years of waiting, I prayed for a healthy baby, a safe birth, and the chance to become the father she deserved.

When Sara was finally born, healthy and unmistakably my daughter, something inside me changed. For the first time in my life, I felt that my most important prayer had been answered. Since then, prayer has become a daily ritual, gratitude has replaced resentment, and fatherhood has given me a sense of purpose, belonging, and love that I never thought possible.

I am no longer a lesser child of God.

Dracula, Werewolves, Ghosts… and Sara | A Single Father’s Sleepless Night With a Midnight Baby

A 53-year-old single father discovers that his seven-month-old daughter Sara has developed a very clear philosophy about life: nighttime is for parties, games, and exhausting her father beyond human limits. Between sleepless chaos, wasted bottles of formula, and hallucinations involving Dracula and Nosferatu, he struggles to survive another night in a household where the world belongs to babies — especially Sara.

Between a Nightmare and Reality | A Dream About Blood, a Memory from Surgery, and the Strain of Single Fatherhood at 52

A disturbing nightmare in which I was urinating and spitting blood continues to trouble me weeks after I woke up. Trying to understand its meaning leads me to an old physical memory from a surgery I once underwent—and to deeper reflections about the emotional weight and responsibility of being a 52-year-old single father to a six-month-old baby. Somewhere between dream and reality, I try to understand what my body and mind might be telling me—and find the strength to keep going, for Sara.

Violence Between Children – Every Parent’s Nightmare | A Father’s Thoughts at the Playground

A violent argument between two young girls at a neighborhood playground unexpectedly stirs deep memories from my own childhood and raises troubling questions about parenting. Watching the scene unfold beside my infant daughter, Sara, I find myself confronting every parent’s fear: will my child one day become a victim of violence—or could she become the one who causes it?

Sara Cast as John Lennon | A Single Father, 52 Years of Loneliness and the Surprising Discovery of Love

After 52 years of emotional isolation and a life largely disconnected from the world, I became a single father through surrogacy. Sarah’s birth forced me to confront everything I had spent a lifetime avoiding — love, emotion, responsibility, and connection. In an unexpected way, she ended up teaching me the same simple truth John Lennon once shared with the world: All you need is love.

I’ll Probably Never Win “Father of the Year” | Life With a Baby Who Refuses to Hear the Word “No”

In this humorous and candid post, a single father describes life with his baby daughter, SARA, who seems to run the household like a tiny monarch. Between endless feedings, sleepless nights, and her insistence on being carried around like an empress, he finds himself constantly exhausted — yet completely devoted. Beneath the humor lies a simple truth: for a baby growing up without a mother, love and warmth are the most important things a father can give.

Sara vs. the Red Hot Chili Peppers | A strange and rare moment in the bond between a father and his baby daughter

Sometimes the bond between a parent and a baby feels deeper than we can explain. One quiet evening during Passover, something small and unusual happened between me and my baby daughter Sara—something that has stayed with me ever since.