Sure, I’d seen ’em. The footballers on Being: Liverpool, every NBA and college basketball player getting off their team bus and walking through the concrete tunnels beneath the arena, I’ve seen ’em a lot, but I never really thought about owning a pair of swanky over-the-ear headphones myself. That is […]
With two darling children and a chubby tabby cat around here, it is vitally important to me that we keep our in-home environment as safe as humanly possible. Call it ‘going green’ if you must. Frankly I think that phrase has been exploited by corporations looking to cash in on […]
The Act II Playhouse in Ambler is an entertainment destination I’ve never visited, or, frankly, heard of until last week. But the intimate, suburban theater is staging a unique holiday show for all-ages called Murray the Elf so its time maybe we all figure out how to get there. Here’s […]
At their very best, picture books are capable of instilling in the reader a certain kind of warmth, and in the listener, a not-insignificant amount of joy. That is the aim, I think, for most all of them. Well, the ones not trying to cash in on the success of […]
On the morning of launch day I waited outside the doors of my local GameStop to pick up my preordered Wii U Deluxe Set, overly excited to get my hands on Nintendo’s giant step into the next generation of gaming. It’s only been hours since I opened the box and […]
JUSTIN ROBERTS LULLABY The girls were over my parents, having just seen their Team USA Olympic gymnastic heroines live and in-person. I came over the next day for dinner, to pick them up and bring ’em home. In my experience, it’s always dicey leaving my parents’ house at night with […]
No pigs in or out of blankets, zero infantile quiches, and rarely ever an evil egg. We four enjoy all of these delicacies very much, for sure, but save for officially-sanctioned family Christmastime visits to my mom and dad’s house, we don’t do hor-d’oeuvres. So when the Hickory Farms Home […]
The esteemed list of 15 was revealed this morning! The best kid’s CDs of the year (defined here as 11/1/11-10/31/12) as voted on by the judges in the annual Fids & Kamily Music Awards were announced on Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child today. Forget whatever crappy jewel cases sit […]
