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On Moving Back In With My Parents
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On Moving Back In With My Parents

I had only been gone for two years but somehow managed to fall in love in that short period of time. When I returned to the nest, in desperate search of a free place to crash before beginning the next chapter of my young life, I wasn’t alone. After moving […]

Tough and Tender Parenting
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Tough and Tender Parenting

It has come to my attention that I am more like jerky than previously believed, and not only because I’m sometimes a jerk. Anyway, that’d be WAY too obvious a joke. And that’s not my style. I should be clear here, before we go any further down this curious road: […]

Should You Put Your Kid on a Child Leash at Disney World…or Anywhere Else?
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Should You Put Your Kid on a Child Leash at Disney World…or Anywhere Else?

My plan was to stroll around Epcot for a few hours during the annual Food and Wine Festival as a way of stepping out of a photographic comfort zone, for I love the idea of street photography but find it too debilitating to point my Samsung camera in the general […]

Holiday Entertaining with Ristorante Pizza
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Holiday Entertaining with Ristorante Pizza

I’m tall, can’t play even the basic melody of “Jingle Bells” on the piano and, if it’s all the same to you, my appetite and I will pass on bottles of both red and white wine. Clearly, I’m no Billy Joel. No one would ever confuse me for an entertainer. […]

A Modern Tool For Parenting in the Digital Age
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A Modern Tool For Parenting in the Digital Age

I recently found out about and I’m tickled pink that the brains behind this ingenious family tech device were interested in partnering with (and compensating) me to tell this story about a very modern new tool capable of quelling a very modern worry. All opinions expressed below are honest and […]

The Motivation for Grade School Music and Arts
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The Motivation for Grade School Music and Arts

Thanks to The Network Niche, today’s post is sponsored by Music & Arts. Should I listen to The Epic (quite literally), nearly 3-hour long Kamasi Washington album a few more times straight through, there may be a cardiac situation in my home. This is because a tiny piece of me […]

Growing Older With Fewer Monthly Bills
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Growing Older With Fewer Monthly Bills

OWTK is a brand ambassador for TracFone’s #TracFoneFamily campaign. All opinions expressed below are honest and unbiased, as always. These kinds of conversations simply don’t happen. Frankly, there have been disturbingly few conversations between my brother and I over the past several years, but the ones we have had were […]

Josh Ritter Live at the WXPN Free at Noon October 2015
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Josh Ritter Live at the WXPN Free at Noon October 2015

This was a special afternoon. It was Josh Ritter’s birthday and the entire crowd serenaded him with “Happy Birthday” before the band started (his reaction is captured in the 3rd photo below). This was also the first concert for his adorable 3-year-old daughter. Last Friday’s Free at Noon was a […]

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