Our TV is almost never on. It sits upon a recently stained Ikea buffet, angled slightly and extending a thumb’s length off the edge. It’s a 42″ semi-reflective black mirror for 23 1/2 hours a day, on average.
When the television is on, it’s the manicured green grass of European...
September 12th, 2017 | Parenting Blog | Read More
We always look forward to fall.
But this September, it is more than just the soccer on TV, crisp autumn air blowing in through the open windows, and crunchy leaves scattered on the ground that has us ready for fall! There’s a ton of exciting Family Entertainment coming soon.
Here’s what we...
September 11th, 2017 | OWTK TV News | Read More
I had been up for hours already.
Threadbare was my body, fueled incompletely throughout the long dark and lonely night by soft serve twists and by ice cold chocolate milk from stainless steels troughs surrounded by the clamoring masses desperately seeking reams of thick cut bacon and other greasy breakfast...
September 8th, 2017 | Parenting Blog | Read More
There were supposed to be more hours to kill in paradise on that Thursday morning.
I’d gone Into The Mystic the evening prior, staying up later than advisable if not for the anticipation of a morning spent peacefully under a puffed white duvet until the haze of morning had faded in the straightaway,...
September 7th, 2017 | Big Guy Car Guy, Travel | Read More
Phewff, this is a rollicking good time!
There’s so much new music to get to and I did my best to spin the very best of the impressive bunch.
We dig a bit deeper into the new Lucky Diaz and Gustafer Yellowgold, hear what Jack Forman of Recess Monkey is up to with his debut solo album, get woke by...
September 1st, 2017 | OWTK Kid's Music Monthly Podcast | Read More
She should’ve been in her bed 30 minutes ago.
Instead, she’s lying with me atop of mine, beneath a spinning fan pushing unseasonable cool air around the room.
She’s chuckling, flopping around from side to side, getting out the evening goofs. Her teal hair are windshield wipers in front of a big...
August 30th, 2017 | Most Popular Stories, Parenting Blog | Read More
Our Last Road Trip
This one was an expensive, drawn-out lesson.
It took our two-week, one-way summertime drive from the Carnival Cruise port of Seattle to the driveway of our suburban Philly home to realize what we probably already knew, deep down, but didn’t want to admit.
At least the ride was smooth....
August 24th, 2017 | Travel | Read More
“Even though we may be surrounded by loved ones, kids and spouses, and chat and tweet with buddies whose little faces pop up on our phone 24/7, it is imperative, for me at least, to hug my friends, to see their smiles light up a room in person, and to tell them face to face that I love them and...
August 23rd, 2017 | Most Popular Stories, Parenting Blog | Read More
