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There are worse smells to taste in someone’s mouth, surely.
Tuna salad is near the vanguard of that foul parade but the stale residue of all the chocolates you’ve loved before isn’t that much sweeter, not when you’ve got designs on locking lips with your significant...
February 12th, 2019 | Parenting Blog | Read More
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With me finally making the transition earlier this year, we are now a completely vegetarian household but that doesn’t mean the odors from our food are any less meaty. In fact, thanks to an extra heaping portion of sautéed garlic, balsamic...
January 31st, 2019 | Parenting Blog | Read More
WINTER
The enthused clattering of a 5pm standing O had floating its way up into the blue sky bowl, the inverted dome from which the chandelier hung, like the death from a refined lady’s slender cigarette dangling from the tips of her black satin gloved fingers. Still, the able bodied pair flanking...
January 31st, 2019 | Parenting Blog | Read More
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A small moment of joy shared together in Ireland by a waterfall before embarking on the epic Ring of Kerry drive.
Yes, we were in Ireland and Norway and Italy and have retraced our dating steps on South Street in Philadelphia, but it’s the granular details,...
January 22nd, 2019 | Parenting Blog | Read More
A peer asked me recently if she could use a few of my photos from the cruise my teen and I took on the splendid new Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas last August. “Sure,” I eagerly responded. I mean, who doesn’t love a sweet photo credit or three on a big website, and then I went...
January 17th, 2019 | Travel | Read More
If they were to find joy, it would come from the margins.
From the jump, the wide areas were clearly there for the home team with promotion aspirations and, just before the halftime whistle, the back of the net was finally rippled.
Hernandez had found himself in acres of Yorkshire green, made himself...
January 9th, 2019 | Travel | Read More
I woke from a dream, startled and out of breath. Beads of sweat were pasted to my forehead. I couldn’t see a damn thing.
The room was black and statuesque. Not even the neighboring cicadas were whimpering into the void. Only the patter of stray raindrops broke the silence.
Reaching behind my head,...
January 8th, 2019 | Parenting Blog | Read More
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In years past I’ve given him NFL football player’s jerseys. Well, jersey t-shirts because I’m not made of solid gold, ya know?
There were also Star Wars and Lord of the Rings LEGO sets and Xbox One shoot ‘em up games (that I remain conflicted about buying) all...
December 17th, 2018 | Parenting Blog | Read More
