In a companion piece to this winter’s Ways In Which We’ve Failed to Manage Our Anxiety, Claire and Roland take some time to freak out in public about something particularly concerning to them: DADS.

Within thirteen months of the passing of Dan Koleske, Claire’s dad, Roland is scheduled to become a dad (inasmuch as newborns care about your schedule).

They’ve decided to talk at you, out loud, and tell a series of only distantly related stories about standing on either side of dadhood.