Note: This is not Things That Fill Me With Joy (my daughter’s smile, my wife’s touch) or Things That Break My Heart (my daughter’s tears, when my wife gets no sleep because of the baby), but Things that Make Me Cry. EVERY time.

- Bagpipes generally. Amazing Grace on the bagpipes specifically. Amazing Grace on the bagpipes in Tommy Boy after Tommy’s father dies, most specifically.

- The episode of Sports Night where Jeremy comes back from a holiday and breaks up with Natalie because he just can’t process that his parents, who have been married for more than 20 years, are getting divorced. (My parents got divorced after 27 years of marriage.)

- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring It was the bride’s processional for our wedding.

- John Denver’s Annie’s Song

- The Magic of Disney. If you’re embarassed by public displays of emotion, don’t ever go to Disney World with me. I’m a veritable waterwork. “Oh, look, it’s MICKEY!”

- And the newest one, Adam Sandler’s song about his dad Stan the Man

So dad,
Thanks for letting me stay up late to watch Johnny Carson
Thanks for coaching all our games in Livingston Park
Thanks for telling me to always punch a kid in the face
If he made an anti-Semitic remark