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I still produce the monthly OWTK music podcast (new episode for April 2016 is now live!) but the volume of kid’s music being played in my home has decreased significantly over the course of the past few years. At the height of my and my family’s decade-long involvement in the […]
From a purely geographical standpoint, my wife and I grew up in the same world. Although we didn’t know it at the time, we were exactly 26.2 miles from each other as kids. In every other category not measurable by running a marathon, however, our childhoods were worlds apart. For […]
The PIN of my first bank debit card spelled out the word ‘FOOD’. This wasn’t a quiet cry for help but it was also no accident. I was 13 years old and that’s precisely how I decided, of free will, large belly and sound mind, to announce my arrival into […]
You may be the most hardcore of Disney aficionados but you probably don’t know about the Disney Dreamers Academy. The annual event brings together one hundred high school academic superstars and a gaggle of celebrities and inspirational speakers with the intention of propelling those fortunate young people into life like […]
This golf story needed a rewrite before the first sentence had been put down because even with the most radiant light there are shadows. Mine was a childhood spent in Payne Stewart style knickers (possibly the origin point of the Bogle cuff) walking upwind to avoid the long tail of […]
There was never a gaggle of friends, male or (and most certainly not) female, hanging around me as a boy or as a young adult. I grew up alone from a peer standpoint, which wasn’t all bad. I credit the arrangement for keeping me out of a lot of the […]
The well containing all of the knowledge we wish to pass on to our kids is bottomless. I reckon, in fact, that it goes on quite a bit further than that. Frankly, I’m not certain if there are fewer or more than one secret to raising great kids. Hell, I’ve […]
