I’ve known Leticia for a while. She’s brilliant, kind, and lovely. We’ve chatted quite a bit over the years but those chats, sadly, were ever only in passing — between keynote speeches and roundtable discussions at parenting conferences usually; the act of catching up squeezed into the crevices of a dense […]
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Headphones have been providing music lovers a personal relationship with their favorite songs and albums since the advent of the chunky Walkman in the 70s. Today, nearly everyone walks around, rides the subway, and flies on planes with their own pair of in-ear buds or over-ear headphones. Allowing kids to […]
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She walked into the room and asked, out loud and to no one in particular, “why can’t they build an underwater hotel?” As a person who spends far too much time on the internet, I remarked to her rando question floated without warning into the tidepool of our otherwise tranquil […]
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I rolled the car along a stretch of black between the glistening artificial green of the training pitch and the two-tone, two-story facade of Huish Park’s main stand. Yeovil Town’s academy kids (or maybe it was the first team — I couldn’t have known) were being put through their paces […]
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“So you’re telling me, that if you saw Adolf Hilter walking down the street, you wouldn’t kill him?” “Well that’s not what I was saying. But sure, let’s talk about this…entirely new topic”. My fourteen year old daughter has had a quick wit that belied her age since I was […]
The 19th Amendment celebrates its 100th in 2020! If still alive, we’d be singing happy 100th birthday to Charles Bukowski and Agatha Christie too, as well as to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise…if you fancy singing to a book. But wait, there’s more turning 100 in 2020! Including […]
She was smearing globs of whipped sweet cream butter onto a raisin scone cut without fanfare into bite-sized pieces. A pair of crusty, acute triangular ends caked in crystallized sugars were all that remained. They are his favorite; he has a thing for finales. Yet he didn’t intervene in hers. […]
For my money, Going To The Sun Road that cuts across Glacier National Park is the GOAT best National Park road trip but there are many other National Park road trips to enjoy during the pandemic and after…if we ever fully experience ‘after’. The 15 Best National Park Road Trips […]
For my money, Going To The Sun Road that cuts across Glacier National Park is the GOAT best National Park road trip but there are many other National Park road trips to enjoy during the pandemic and after…if we ever fully experience ‘after’. The 15 Best National Park Road Trips […]
I’ve piloted a pair of minivans across the width of the country (Toyota Sienna, Kia Sedona), a Highlander up and down the Pacific NW and through the woods of Ohio, a Kia Niro on the Blue Ridge Parkway and from Orlando down to Miami for soccer and baseball and brunch […]
Lighthouses, a national seashore, wild horses on the beach, and massive vacation rental homes: the Outer Banks is one of the best family-friendly road trip destinations on the east coast. The Ultimate Guide to an Outer Banks Road Trip For Reader’s Digest, I wrote a guide to an Outer Banks […]
Between the COVID-19 pandemic, civil rights protests, skyrocketing unemployment, and the contentious run-up to the most critical presidential election of our time, this summer has been a doozy and a half. Not sure if socially-distanced travel ideas are high on your list of needs right now but you may want […]
Is there a Bubba Gump shrimp in Galveston, Texas? You betcha there is. A Joe’s Crab Shack too. This slender strip of land is a beachfront tourist hub after all, and it shows, in parts, but there’s more than mile upon mile of sandy gulf coast shoreline and the requisite […]
This story is sponsored by Dick’s Sporting Goods. All opinions expressed below are honest, unbiased and 100% my own. It’s mid-August. It’s brimstone-hot outside and the a/c is gasping for the air we need it to keep pumping inside. The summer is both in full force and winding down, and […]
I’m a reasonable man.The long and winding road nears its end.A pair of kittens bounce off walls in an endless, relatively fruitless chase of tails and feathers.The artist inside a rubber shoe, rolling about with a painted smile. The Museum of Funeral History is in Houston. It teaches what the […]
Big Sur? Yes, sir. Kentucky bourbon?? Make it a double. Gilmore Girls??? Everyone loves Lorelai. Now is the ideal time to take a road trip to see, taste and geek out over all of that and more. Let’s be real: it’s gonna be a hot minute before we once again […]
