This post is sponsored by Lexington Law Firm So your kid got their first job, that’s awesome. Congrats to them…now what? Here’s some dad advice from a parent who’s been there on how to help kids balance life, time, and money now that they are working. Save for seeing Hamilton […]
This post is sponsored by Lexington Law Firm Ten years ago, I willing waved goodbye to my cushy white collar job, and its beefy annual summertime bonus, to be a full time dad. My daughters were 4 and 1 then, newbies still as this whole ‘life’ thing. Upon announcing my […]
This post is sponsored by Lexington Law Firm. Thanks to the creation of 529 College Savings Plans in the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, American parents have unwittingly been entered into yet another rat race. Not only are we climbing ladders to get the ‘best’ jobs and own […]
It was about a mile. Maybe a skosh more from the famous Long Room Of The Old Library At Trinity College in Dublin. Even with a Thanksgiving weekend chill in the air, this was not an unreasonable distance to cover on foot. I marched out in front of my troupe, […]
It was the third day of school, mid-August. The sun was at the peak of her powers, still, and yet the 11-year-old who’s now a full fledged 6th grader was wearing black leggings, boots, and a hoodie. Her look, more reliable than the postman. With hair longer on the right […]
This story was sponsored by Lexington Law Firm. All the opinions and details expressed below and 100% true…unfortunately. Early days, I climbed the ladder up to my own personal debt ceiling one ‘$30 Friendly’s dinner with my first steady girlfriend’ rung at a time. I paid the minimums and paid […]
*OWTK has proudly partnered with Hanes for this national park travel story. These three words represent key themes from the new Hanes t-shirt collection in partnership with the National Park Foundation. Those bold words — Explore, Adventure, Protect — are fitting for the collection, and are equally comfortable being bandied […]
Most guys would think I’m daft for not having had my kids out doing the yard work years ago. They’d say something like, “dude what’s wrong with you?” (That’s a sentence I hear a lot anyway) These guys would then get more pointed with their critique, adding “that’s one of […]
