One Hundred Kisses

Posted on by Jonathan Janz

My wife’s always telling me I should post more about myself on here. She claims not everyone is as fixated on Stephen King and Richard Matheson as I am.

Could it be?

So before I go to bed to read the final pages of THE EXORCIST, I’ll share something I do every day. Well, almost every day.

No job on the planet is as important as being a parent. I pray every night to be a better dad, and every night I feel I’ve fallen short. I ache to be the dad that my three children deserve. I might not get much right, but I do make sure I do this:

One hundred kisses every night. For each kid. Sometimes it’s the forehead, other times (usually with my two-year-old daughter, who tends to get squirmy at around the twenty-four or twenty-five kiss mark) it’s the forearm. But I kiss them each a hundred times so they’ll have that before they fall asleep.

I love my kids more than I could explain with a lifetime of words. I’m blessed far more than I deserve.

And I love being their father. I feel like it’s what I was born to do.

That’s all for tonight.

dad

 

5 thoughts on “One Hundred Kisses”

  2. I agree, it shows your softer side which some will like and others won’t, but it’s you so they can deal with it. It helps to show everyone who likes horror is not a mass murder. And from what I see you are a great dad that most kids would give anything to have. You don’t have to be perfect, just love them. And you do. You spend quality time with them. I concur on that and that is why I sacrifice some things to make sure I am always there for my kids and raise them right. Kiss them lots, play with them, be creative with them, read with them….it’s important and the best job you’ll ever have. 🙂

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Jonathan Janz grew up between a dark forest and a graveyard, and in a way, that explains everything. Brian Keene named his debut novel The Sorrows “the best horror novel of 2012”. The Library Journal deemed his follow-up, House of Skin, “reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Peter Straub’s Ghost Story.” Samhain Horror will also publish his third novel, The Darkest Lullaby, in April. Savage Species will be his fourth full-length work. Look for his fifth novel, a vampire western called Dust Devils, in early 2014. He has also written three novellas (The Clearing of Travis Coble, Old Order, and Witching Hour Theatre) and several short stories. His primary interests are his wonderful wife and his three amazing children, and though he realizes that every author’s wife and children are wonderful and amazing, in this case the cliché happens to be true. You can learn more about Jonathan at www.jonathanjanz.com. You can also find him on Facebook, via @jonathanjanz on Twitter, or on his Goodreads and Amazon author pages.