The Teen’s Very Good Night and Day and Night on Broadway

That first night was pretty special. The Mrs. and the teen thought we were starting our time in New York City at a hockey game in Brooklyn. I sold it so very well. It was a Tony Award worthy performance. Come From Away is set in Newfoundland and, as you maybe know if you know the musical, Newfoundlanders... January 11th, 2018 | Most Popular Stories, Parenting Blog | Read More

Ride & Drive Two Kia Stingers, a Niro, Soul Turbo, Sorento, the All New Kia Rio5 and More at the New England International Auto Show in Boston this Weekend!

Whether you are in the market for a smart new family car (or a zippy mid-life crisis ride) or if you simply get giddy shivers at the sight of a sea of shiny metal under bright convention center lights, this weekend’s New England International Auto Show in Boston presents the perfect opportunity... January 10th, 2018 | Big Guy Car Guy | Read More

My kingdom for a sausage roll! (or trying to get a halftime bite to eat at St. Mary’s)

I won’t tell you that no one at all leaves their seat for 45 minutes straight but the amount of up and down is dramatically less than the average American sport. After all, one cannot properly join the chorus of Oriol Romeu’s terrace song from in front of a stainless steel trough in the... January 10th, 2018 | Most Popular Stories, Sports | Read More

Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island Butternut Squash Soup — The Best Butternut Squash Soup Recipe In The World

As a general rule, rarely ever is it desirable to pull back the curtain on the glistening sports car or the pricey speed boat at the very beginning of a game show. This was the opening meal, but that wasn’t the plan. November 2017’s #LoveAmelia ManFAM press trip was forced to reschedule thanks... January 8th, 2018 | RECIPE BOX, Travel | Read More

From Amelia Island to Paris: The Fat Boy Who Would Become A Petanque Olympian

It certainly plays more cinematic in my mind than it did on the dew-covered pitch that Saturday morning some 30 years ago but the fact remains, I was smashed in the face by the ball, then by a cleat from the opposing team’s #9. Things went dark for a bit. In the aftermath, while I was down on the... January 5th, 2018 | Sports, Travel | Read More

Practicing The Parenting Self-Care I Preach

We’re instructed to do it every time we fly. In the unlikely event cabin pressure is lost in flight, affix your own oxygen masks before assisting others. The benefits of this are obvious but not something we parents would naturally do first, not without the stern yet friendly reminder while taxing... January 2nd, 2018 | Parenting Blog | Read More

4 hours and 230 miles of driving for 22 minutes of Grace

I knew that, as part of a multi-band radio station concert, she wouldn’t perform a long set but still I patiently waited for Let It Show tickets to drop, drop, drop in price to a more than reasonable $13 each on SeatGeek, and then surprised the girls with a semi-spontaneous 2-hour drive after... December 19th, 2017 | Big Guy Car Guy | Read More

12 Days of Eric Cantona (or the price paid for hearing your own voice in a crowd of 80,000 on a frigid night in Manchester)

There may have been a few dreams conjured inside the theater of Old Trafford on this pre-Christmas night but those would’ve been of the dancing sugarplum variety courtesy of a middle management approach to football played by the home side, ushering supporters into an earlier long winter’s... December 15th, 2017 | Most Popular Stories, Sports, Travel | Read More