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American Family Adventures — Midwestern Road Trip Weekend with Toyota and Hilton Garden Inn
Travel

American Family Adventures — Midwestern Road Trip Weekend with Toyota and Hilton Garden Inn

Our upcoming road trip proves it once and for all: I’m a very, very, very lucky boy.

OWTK’s Helpful Idea #8 Remodeling Without Spending A Fortune
OWTK's Helpful Ideas / Parenting Blog

OWTK’s Helpful Idea #8 Remodeling Without Spending A Fortune

Can’t afford to gut the bathroom and remodel like a champ? I hear ya, us neither. That shit is eeeeeexpensive. But maybe you don’t have to spend thousands to make new a space in your home that is screaming out for a do-over. I’ve found that, in the bathroom for […]

Travel Far And Wide With Gannon & Wyatt PLUS A Giveaway
OWTK KidLit + Comics

Travel Far And Wide With Gannon & Wyatt PLUS A Giveaway

A new middle grade adventure book series should be a hit with girls and boys alike, and you can win all three books (including the newest not in stores until 2014) right now! Hello, holiday gift!

The Birds and The Bees and Swimming Trophies
Parenting Blog

The Birds and The Bees and Swimming Trophies

Let me start by admitting that I am not 100% certain I know where babies come from.

The Lone Bellow live at Union Transfer, Philadelphia, November 14 2013.
Parenting Blog

The Guy I Met and Lost

I go to concerts by myself. Alone in a crowd of a thousand. Except for this one guy who I met and too quickly lost. This is the story of the friend I almost made.

Why There Are No Girl Swap Force Skylanders
OWTK Gaming

Why There Are No Girl Swap Force Skylanders

Move over McKayla Maroney, the Bear is not impressed. My oldest gal traveled with me to New York City last week specifically to ask a Skylanders Swap Force game developer why there are no Swappable Swap Force girls. She and we love the new female characters — Roller Brawl, Smolderdash, […]

Parenting Blog

It’s Not The Road For Us

Whatever I am, I happen to be of the opinion that my wife, my daughters, and myself holding hands, twirling, and wildly screaming along with Frank Turner’s “Photosynthesis” in the kitchen on a school night will carry my girls further in life than anything else ever could. Further than any school lesson. Any Facebook status update. Any politician’s promise. Any skin restoring face cream. Any college degree. Any. Damn. Thing.

On Masters of Sex and Thoughtfulness in a Sock Drawer
Parenting Blog

On Masters of Sex and Thoughtfulness in a Sock Drawer

The Mouse was crying again, emotional spill over from the prior evening when she watched the Bear’s already cool bed transform from the skyscraper variety to the kind with a starlight roof. This kind of childhood jealousy is a foreign concept in this house, like a bowl of borscht in a Parisian bistro. It doesn’t make any sense.

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