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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 feeders,...
May 30th, 2019 | Parenting Blog | Read More
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. I wiped away a mixture of sleep and tears, then...
May 29th, 2019 | Parenting Blog | Read More
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 a white trellis awning...
May 21st, 2019 | Travel | Read More
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 Institute and the Hamilton-themed...
May 10th, 2019 | Big Guy Car Guy, Parenting Blog | Read More
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...
May 6th, 2019 | Travel | Read More
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.
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May 3rd, 2019 | Travel | Read More
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...
May 2nd, 2019 | Travel | Read More
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
