Arjana and Ivan perform on board the Carnival Legend in Alaska.
Live jazz music is not the reason one gets themselves to Seattle, pays the extra cash for a balcony room, and cruises up the Inside Passage to Alaska.
Hell, not even the succulent filet mignon and creamy sauce béarnaise from the Carnival...
August 5th, 2017 | Travel | Read More
Yellowstone’s Perfect Waterfall Rainbow in the Lower Falls from Artist Point overlooking the Grand Canyon.
We were never supposed to be there.
We were never supposed to see Yellowstone’s perfect waterfall rainbow, and by all rights we shouldn’t have had the privilege since we had no...
August 3rd, 2017 | Travel | Read More
The Best Alaska Cruise Excursion for families.
There’s a lot of hyperbole on the internet.
It’s the very thing driving millions of clicks to websites falsely promising “THE REAL CURE FOR AGING!!” and claiming to answer idiotic hot take questions like, “IS LEBRON THE BEST...
July 27th, 2017 | Travel | Read More
The cast of Marvel Universe Live! Age of Heroes.
I’ve attended exactly one Free Comic Book Day in my life.
This was a few years back, during the heyday of Art Baltazar’s Tiny Titans comics which was the slow birth of my own daughters’ interest in anything fictionally superheroic.
This...
July 26th, 2017 | OWTK THEATER REVIEWS | Read More
The fireplace glows yellow in the corner of the oversized bungalow room, tossing shadows boldly onto whitewashed walls and gently across rich hardwood floorboards, as a future JC Penney model strums an acoustic guitar.
I’m on my back atop the virgin white comforter of a ludicriously comfy king...
July 22nd, 2017 | Big Guy Car Guy, Travel | Read More
I would have never done it, but isn’t that what they all say.
It probably goes without saying that waking for the day at 2:37, 3:14, or 3:51 in the morning, every morning and in excruciating pain at that, has a myriad of only negative consequences on a person.
The ripple effect of this A.M. horror...
July 21st, 2017 | Most Popular Stories, Parenting Blog, Travel | Read More
I didn’t have my first taste of BBQ until my late 20s.
Throughout the next decade there would be occasions where I would offer up this curious nugget from my culinary back story to various people in mixed company. There was always a natural lead-in, I’m not that random (although at this...
July 17th, 2017 | Travel | Read More
Ever since first becoming a dad, I’ve found shopping with my daughters to be a sweet way to spend time together.
They concur in spades because whether it’s picking up something sugary in the baked goods section or snagging samples of a Young Mahon Spanish cheese, Greek honey drizzled on toast...
July 16th, 2017 | Parenting Blog | Read More
