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So your kid got their first job, that’s awesome. Congrats to them…now what? Here’s some dad advice from a parent who’s been there on how to help kids balance life, time, and money now that they are working.
Save for seeing Hamilton in July of 2016,...
September 24th, 2018 | Parenting Blog | Read More
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Ten years ago, I willing waved goodbye to my cushy white collar job, and its beefy annual summertime bonus, to be a full time dad. My daughters were 4 and 1 then, newbies still as this whole ‘life’ thing.
Upon announcing my big news, I was called crazy,...
September 17th, 2018 | Parenting Blog | Read More
The Best First Day Itinerary on the Symphony of the Seas
After 7 cruises, most recently on the Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas, I am prepared to declare myself a bit of a cruise expert. I’ve scoured each and every ship, tasted nearly all the food, did almost all the activities, saw all of...
September 14th, 2018 | Travel | Read More
No game since Skylanders for our Nintendo Wii and later, the WiiU, has made a big an impression on my girls as Go Vacation for the Nintendo Switch. My 11-year-old, the Mouse, a tween gamer is especially smitten with this Switch game of never ending vacation. In the market for gifts for tween girls? My...
September 13th, 2018 | OWTK Gaming | Read More
So the cabin door slammed behind us. It was midday, it was fine.
We collapsed onto our respective beds, me a king in the air in front of the 46″ flat screen embedded into the wall; her a twin trundle on the floor by the balcony facing Italian islands our feet knew well, blots of Italy our eyes...
September 12th, 2018 | Travel | Read More
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Thanks to the creation of 529 College Savings Plans in the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, American parents have unwittingly been entered into yet another rat race. Not only are we climbing ladders to get the ‘best’ jobs and own the biggest...
September 12th, 2018 | Parenting Blog | Read More
It was about a mile.
Maybe a skosh more from the famous Long Room Of The Old Library At Trinity College in Dublin.
Even with a Thanksgiving weekend chill in the air, this was not an unreasonable distance to cover on foot.
I marched out in front of my troupe, leading them to the Dublin restaurant I had...
September 8th, 2018 | Parenting Blog | Read More
A Teenager’s 7 Favorite Parts of Once On This Island
by Julie Bogle
*Dad here, real quick — Julie LOVES musicals (natch) and loved so many parts of “Once On This Island”. In fact, she forgot to list the thing that she said was her favorite part of the musical immediately after...
September 3rd, 2018 | OWTK THEATER REVIEWS | Read More
