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
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...
March 19th, 2019 | Parenting Blog | Read More
Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa
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...
March 19th, 2019 | The Mighty Pen, Travel | Read More
Beneath a field of blue, I cut through farmlands; I was a warm knife slicing through the butter that the bevy of cows flanking the straightaway indicate may very well be produced here.
It was a Tuesday in autumn on England’s stubby southeastern toe. The next football ground was maybe 8 minutes...
February 19th, 2019 | Travel | Read More
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...
February 13th, 2019 | Sports | Read More
