Quit chain smoking. Lose weight. Retire the Member’s Only jacket. Stop downloading porn. I rarely make New Year’s resolutions. This year though, I am. I’m making just one and it is this: To commit to a life ruled by the law of anecdotal value. Even though you are there and […]
Traveling with kids can be immensely rewarding. It can also be, as any parent who has ever tried it knows all too well, insanely frustrating. First, you’ve got the transportation issues: Modern air travel, when involving major international airports, is royal pain in the ass. Train travel within the U.S. […]
The approach to Hogsmeade and Hogarts castle, through ‘The Lost Continent’ and Seuss Landing in Universal Orlando’s Islands of Adventure, is absolutely stunning. For a man-made edifice depicting a fictional place known only in books and on film, the first sight of the imposing castle will be, for some, akin […]
On Vacation… …posting will be slim to none. Here’s one reason why: …here’s another:
As we get set to embark on another journey skyward with the children, I figured now would be a great time to revisit my No Fail Kids-on-a-Plane Plan. I wrote that 4 years ago, just before we took the Bear, then 2.5-years old, to France for a couple of weeks. […]
We’ve been to Hershey a few times, but the girls and I made the 1 hour and 15 minute drive west again yesterday morning with a single-minded purpose: to test-drive CREATE YOUR OWN CANDY BAR, the faux-factory’s latest attraction. The main draw of Hershey’s Chocolate World has been, for many […]
We were just in A.C. for a college basketball tournament, to cheer on my MSU Spartans. While in the East Coast gambling mecca, we hit a couple of the well-promoted family holiday events. Here’s my quick take on what we saw: The Tropicana indoor snowfall (every 15 minutes) was underwhelming, […]
All it took was one innocuous Facebook post. Over the weekend, Bill Childs of Spare the Rock Spoil the Child wrote, quite simply, that he was plotting his family’s Summer road trip. That’s all…no details, no dreamy locale mentioned. I read this sentence and my mind quickly began to roam…where […]
