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 […]
“Night Shift” is a slow burn; it’s a wick set alight; it begins as a gentle midnight stroll before reaching the boiling point of a cobblestoned city. There is some distance needing to be traveled before the heat can be felt on our faces, before sweat forms in the palms […]
The guy at the register seemed excited to practice his English so I dropped any pretense of having worked on my French. He smiled and handed me my change, 37.20 from a 50, the last of the twelve I’d withdrawn from an ATM in Le Havre 9 days ago. His […]
Thank you to Verizon Wireless for sponsoring this post Maybe it is dependent on the way the wind is blowing through the oak tree leaves at that exact moment or if there are too many red-breasted robins chirping in the backyard, each clamoring for someone to refill the three bird […]
The guy at the register seemed excited to practice his English so I dropped any pretense of having worked on my French. He smiled and handed me my change, 37.20 from a 50, the last of the twelve I’d withdrawn from an ATM in Le Havre 9 days ago. His […]
Thank you to Verizon Wireless for sponsoring this post Maybe it is dependent on the way the wind is blowing through the oak tree leaves at that exact moment or if there are too many red-breasted robins chirping in the backyard, each clamoring for someone to refill the three bird […]
I’d been away for the better part of a week when she came up and laid down beside me. Her hot chocolate eyes and heaving chest inches from my face. It had been months, shit maybe even a full calendar year, since she had been this close for this long. […]
A colorful flyer for a twerking competition, pink neon script on black gloss, was taped to the window of a restaurant in Pompey Square in Nassau Bahamas. A lone pair dined alfresco. The waitress sat on a high top chair, slumped over behind the hostess stand in the shade beneath […]
It was delivered to our driveway in mid-April so that it might carry us to South Carolina for a spring break visit to the new home of my oldest brother and then, a few days later, to Philadelphia for a pre-Easter romp through a Marvel superheroes exhibit at the Franklin […]
Easy because I’m here to help! Check out my list of 40 — FORTY! — affordable family vacation destinations in the U.S. and why each is worthy of a visit. Each destination provides extreme value for families through fairly priced hotels, free museums, complimentary nature worth spending days upon days […]
Whale in Norway, frog legs at sea, and a parade of red meat across the American heartland; menus are a minefield when traveling the world as a vegetarian. But just as there are bastions of blue in a sea of red, there are plants sprouting up in U.S. cow pastures. […]
When my wife and I first became parents and decided we would be investing in childhood above all else by pouring disposable income into experiences instead of accumulating more and more stuff and, controversial in some circles, in place of saving for college. When we become parents, we dreamed of […]
