Parenting Blog
on February 20, 2016 at 10:35 am ×
84 miles is a big distance to cover on foot over the course of 7 days. That’s the very distance I’ll walk across the north of England with 11 of my dad blogger/writer pals this summer. Why am I walking across England? Two reasons: Oren Miller and Camp Kesem. We’re […]
Parenting Blog
on February 17, 2016 at 1:41 pm ×
This is the moment you’ve been waiting for, kids. The official guide to “Bogleling” your jeans is finally here so you can cuff your Lee Jeans like a champ in all kinds of weather, for all kinds of occasions. What do you have coming up…Grammy Awards red carpet walk? Family […]
Parenting Blog
on February 17, 2016 at 9:21 am ×
I have two brothers, 11 and 12 years my elder. As a child, the younger of the pair developed a musical inclination, an artistic skill that, to this day, no one in my family can properly trace the origins of, for we Bogles are not what you would call a […]
Parenting Blog / Sports
on February 12, 2016 at 2:41 pm ×
Photo of Claudio Ranieri from Leicester City’s Official Website Sometimes a child must stand face to face with boredom in order to find new ways to play with old things. This is part of a larger thought that came to me as I marveled at the accomplishments this season of […]
Parenting Blog
on February 11, 2016 at 10:54 am ×
Somewhere inside my parent’s house is a faded photograph of me on the slopes. I’m 6 or 8 or thereabouts, blue snowsuit and no poles. I am positively adorable as a pudgy-faced, wide-eyed ski baby. The photo was taken on the morning of my first day of ski school, after […]
Marriage
on February 4, 2016 at 9:53 am ×
When a glass slips out of our hand as we pivot from counter top to table top, many feet above the heartless tile floor that’s having none of our split seconds prayers for relief, and shatters with the force of a thousand armies attacking in unison during a single solitary […]
Parenting Blog
on January 29, 2016 at 2:21 pm ×
It’s no secret that I’m my mother’s son. I embrace, never run from, the comparison made by those who know us both and I believe wholeheartedly that my dialed down version of her obsessive cleaning and homemaking self is a perfectly swell formula for an agreeable balance of order and […]
Parenting Blog
on January 29, 2016 at 11:14 am ×
by Brian Kurtz If you have daughters, you’ve likely seen by now that Mattel, the makers of Barbie, has introduced something new for their iconic doll: a more diverse selection of Barbie body types. Barbie’s origin story is as a mass-marketed adult-figured doll that broke the mold of infant dolls […]