Travel
on July 23, 2019 at 3:27 pm ×
You really need to see these most amazing waterslides in the world to believe ’em. They are tall, they are terrifying (to me), and some of them go uphill. Check out this cool water slides roundup from me on Family Vacation Critic!
Travel
on July 23, 2019 at 8:11 am ×
Vacationing as a family is an entirely different experience than vacationing while single or dating. It’s like going from driving the Camaro you had (or wish you had) in high school to driving a minivan. The usual going anywhere that sounds cool and partying until four in the morning is […]
Travel
on July 18, 2019 at 8:49 pm ×
There are many great American drives, but here are 25 of the best U.S. road trips taking you from Alaska to Key West and (nearly) everywhere in-between. Enjoy my new travel story for Reader’s Digest and tell me your favorite U.S. road trip in the comments and/or on social media!
Big Guy Car Guy / France / Travel
on July 10, 2019 at 4:38 pm ×
I know this stretch well. I’ve driven it on sunny Sunday mornings and foggy AF Tuesday afternoons too, as my two daughters merrily rolled along taking selfies in the 2nd and 3rd rows but also alone and lonely with a spinning head pushing dangerous thoughts with more passive-aggression than a […]
France / Travel
on June 24, 2019 at 4:57 pm ×
The guy at the register seemed excited to practice his English so I dropped any pretense of having worked on my French. He smiled and handed me my change, 37.20 from a 50, the last of the twelve I’d withdrawn from an ATM in Le Havre 9 days ago. His […]
Parenting Blog
on May 30, 2019 at 6:56 am ×
Thank you to Verizon Wireless for sponsoring this post Maybe it is dependent on the way the wind is blowing through the oak tree leaves at that exact moment or if there are too many red-breasted robins chirping in the backyard, each clamoring for someone to refill the three bird […]
Parenting Blog
on May 29, 2019 at 5:02 pm ×
I’d been away for the better part of a week when she came up and laid down beside me. Her hot chocolate eyes and heaving chest inches from my face. It had been months, shit maybe even a full calendar year, since she had been this close for this long. […]
Travel
on May 21, 2019 at 12:31 pm ×
A colorful flyer for a twerking competition, pink neon script on black gloss, was taped to the window of a restaurant in Pompey Square in Nassau Bahamas. A lone pair dined alfresco. The waitress sat on a high top chair, slumped over behind the hostess stand in the shade beneath […]