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 […]
There’s a fog that rolls in off that particular coast, in that specific spot. It happens often but most have gotten accustomed to ignoring it. It doesn’t last longer than it should. No use bellowing about what will blow over soon enough. Ya just gotta wait. That fog, and the […]
I’m not gonna lie, this was a damn thrill. Through a set of random circumstances (it’s always random with me) for which I could never have planned, I was granted the privilege of writing a family travel piece for the February 2020 issue of Parents Magazine. That issue is on […]
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 […]
After many years of cruising together, on both sides of the Atlantic, my teens and I know our way around a cruise ship and we know what makes a good ship great for young people. So together, we present the best cruise ships for teens in 2020. These vacations at […]
I’ve been to the western side of Wyoming. It’s stunning. Many know this, for that’s where Yellowstone and Jackson Hole and The Grand Tetons lie. In August of 2019, I had the chance to spend a few sunny summer days and cool crisp nights on the eastern edge of the […]
Here are 25 sweet holiday gift ideas in a handy dandy guide curated by a real-life 12-year-old and 15-year-old. From a plush Captain America pillow to dainty home decor, and a funky Luna Lovegood backpack to an elegant Original Grain watch, there’s a little something for damn near every older […]
Am I a jobs expert? Nope, nope I am not. Do I know more about the hottest careers than you? Not a chance. I mean, do I even have a career myself? But I interviewed a bunch of HR reps and CEOs for a new Reader’s Digest article about the […]
For years I kept straight the names of all of my daughters’ dolls and stuffed animal friends — from the one that was always naked (Naked Baby Betty) to the floppy bunny who insisted on wearing his sneakers to bed (Falafel). I even usually remembered which grades my nieces and […]
