I love music, reading, soccer, fatherhood, craft root beer, and a really great smelling bar of soap.
I also love walking for days without my feet hurting, seeing (and fine, talking to) my cats when I travel, keeping my car clean on road trips and while I Lyft, and making pretty photographs from far...
April 24th, 2019 | Parenting Blog | Read More
You don’t know anything about Norwich; you don’t know where Norwich is or what’s there worth seeing.
Norwich isn’t London but it’s not far from the capital, at least not in an American road trip sense of the relative word ‘far’; about 100 miles north-northeast...
April 23rd, 2019 | Travel | Read More
When sung by Angelica Schuyler, the word possesses a seductive warmth. Helpless, yes; his eyes how they leave her so.
The view from 10,000 feet is one of a great run. We have had such good fortune. Yeah, there was the weeks of PT after the ankle thing and the recent still unexplained toe thing, the Thanksgiving...
April 22nd, 2019 | Parenting Blog | Read More
Here’s to those with whom we could talk for hours, who bring us raisin cookies with the raisins taken out, who are awake beyond their age, who amaze us, who are the autumn to our spring; here’s to those with whom we can sit in total silence for an entire day, who see things in us that...
April 16th, 2019 | Gustafer Yellowgold, OWTK Kindie Music News | Read More
The quiet car was dimly lit and silent, as advertised. Some chose to sleep.
I regret now that I did not follow suit but the Camp Cope records that’ve been in heavy rotation for over a month would never be prescribed as a cure for insomnia. So the concert played on through my earbuds. Plus, Twitter...
March 29th, 2019 | Sports | Read More
They are winning.
The floodgates were opened and were systematically dismantled, piece by piece, with haste, in the cold light of day, for all to see.
“Here we are, taking it all apart”
Some wore hats and cheered. Others wore a scowl and held up posters. Most watched Netflix and drank...
March 27th, 2019 | Parenting Blog, Politics | Read More
Lucy Dacus in Concert in Philly March 21, 2019
“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,...
March 26th, 2019 | OWTK Not Kids Music, Philly | Read More
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...
March 21st, 2019 | Big Guy Car Guy | Read More
