Not since Frozen has a movie song captured the hearts and minds of my daughters. It’s possible you could tell a similar story in your home right now if you and your children have seen Moana. And if you haven’t seen Moana, go man, go see Moana soon. It’s lovely […]
More and more sporting grounds, from baseball ballparks in San Diego to football stadiums in Philadelphia, are being branded with corporate names in exchange for suitcases full of money. While this is happening all over England too, there are still many football grounds with not only non-corporate names but really […]
As the London toy Fair rolls on, Funko is announcing more and more Pop! figures and series on their blog, Pop! figures that will be added to their massive vinyl library in 2017. There will be Funko Pop! Looney Tunes, Space Jam, MSTK3K, Reservoir Dogs, Retro Video Game Minis, Lord […]
A perfect one-two punch in the air presented itself to my wife and I last week to mourn, scream and protest an unpresidented situation in America. On Friday night, Frank Turner spit truth to power on stage at The Fillmore, leaving us full-throated and raspy voiced by the end of […]
What’s the saying, “two steps forward, one step back”? [not to be confused, of course, with Bruce Springsteen’s 1987 sad sack ode to the opposite in momentum, “One Step Up (and Two Steps Back)”] I think successful people will tell you that the most impactful moments of their individual journeys in […]
It was an otherwise standard issue weeknight. The girls had unpacked their lunchboxes without reminder and plopped their water bottles into the fridge (with a gentle nudge — always needing a gentle nudge), then slid out their homework sheets and slid into their high-top stools at the kitchen island. I […]
The coffee pot blackness of night has given way to a steely eyed grey sky but still, at this early hour, the only light in the kitchen emanates from a trio of nightlights, each adorned with original artwork by my two daughters that’s been scaled down to the size of […]
Ever since the popular writer Malcolm Gladwell opined his 10,000-hour rule in Outliers, that very denomination of deliberate practice to excel in a field and become an expert in any profession has become part and parcel of our culture, but did you know that habits form in a much shorter […]
