There’s a fog that rolls in off that particular coast, in that specific spot. It happens often but most have gotten accustomed to ignoring it. It doesn’t last longer than it should. No use bellowing about what will blow over soon enough. Ya just gotta wait.
That fog, and the reason it rolls...
July 12th, 2018 | Writing | Read More
It’s like a child scooping up fresh cold water from a creek only to lose more than half their prize through the gaps they cannot help from appearing while squeezing with everything they’ve got.
It’s never enough. There’s just no way to have it all.
It was maybe 10 nights total,...
July 11th, 2018 | Parenting Blog | Read More
The turn missed wasn’t there — a phantom limb. Goddamnit, Google Maps.
My own phantom limb wasn’t technically a limb at all, it was a mind still at sea, adrift upon the Gulf, baked by the sun not kissing me back home. My mind rested atop a weary body that hadn’t found adequate sleep since...
July 10th, 2018 | Travel | Read More
Hear the first single from the new Best Coast kid’s album, Best Kids, plus a world premiere Recess Monkey song from their Family Photo Album on this new episode of the OWTK Kid’s Music Monthly Podcast!
This episode is sponsored by Bark, the essential online and social media monitoring service...
July 9th, 2018 | OWTK Kid's Music Monthly Podcast | Read More
Try as I might to Heisman Trophy pose the current superhero culture, to put some distance between myself and the nonstop onslaught of Marvel and Star Wars films and merch, even I cannot deny that sometimes…
superheroes are cool.
Fine I said it. And travel is cool too. Here’s the center of...
July 9th, 2018 | Travel | Read More
There’s something about going 78 miles per hour on the turnpike that pushes America’s turn toward a fascist kleptocracy into focus.
The sky is so lovely with perfect puffs of well-defined white in the shape of bunnies, dragons, and a barn set atop a sea of maternity ward baby blue. Tractor trailers...
July 6th, 2018 | Parenting Blog | Read More
Cross your fingers and say a prayer to your favorite Nordic God.
With viking luck on your side, here’s to hoping your own personal 24 hours in Bergen Norway will produce the same kind of weather laboratory dreamscape my family reveled in on March 27th of this year.
Driving west from our peaceful...
June 26th, 2018 | Travel | Read More
At one point they didn’t exist and then poof, suddenly smartphones were a thing. A thing we all suddenly had in our purses, pockets and palms.
That was like, what, a dozen years ago? A blink of the eye, really.
So smartphones are basically tweens and sometimes we don’t have a clue what to do with...
June 25th, 2018 | Parenting Blog, TECH REVIEWS | Read More
