This is the week!! Today is the day!!!! The Netflix original series Skylanders Academy has arrived on small (and smaller) screens everywhere and we couldn’t be any happier. When I first heard the name of this Skylanders show, I dreamed of it being a Monsters University type of conceit, with […]
I’d already texted my mom and dad to let them get some sleep knowing I was on the ground safely (a tradition of parent/child communication I adhere to vehemently), now ESPN Radio played me the final outs from Wrigley as I drove home from the airport. Nothing but called strikes […]
It’s not only the 24-hour ice cream and free kid’s camp on board Carnival Cruise ships. There’s another, potentially life altering reason every kid should take a cruise. Whether it’s for a stretch of 4, 6, 7, 8 or 10 days, when a child cruises they gain not only the […]
There were several sweet pens in my starting rotation that had me excited to push publish on the idea of The Mighty Pen last week. The Westin pen from Memphis was one of those, and it was with that pen that I scribbled down this crazy new endeavor. Another is […]
She’s arrived here at her own pace, free from impediments and devoid of turbocharged power boosts that would race her toward an imaginary checkered flag finish line. My oldest daughter is 12, and a half, technically, a tween by any definition, and her childhood is still going strong. Some days […]
The blogosphere is weird, even weirder than that word, ‘blogosphere’, which was created from nothing to bundle the wide world web of blogs into one identifiable entity: I wrote a somewhat silly, totally off the cuff post on Facebook today about ‘giving it all up’ to start from scratch with […]
Maybe it’s the crisp October thrill of postseason baseball or the hope inherent in the dawn of a new hockey campaign, but I’m swimming in sports analogies these days. Here’s another. Middle relievers are a fascinating lot. Few casual fans know their names and rarely does a signing or a […]
The former CEO of my former employer was fond of the word ‘hubris’. He’d warn against it in grand speeches designed to keep us hungry, innovative, humble and to ensure we would remain client focused in the face of tremendous success and a steady stream of critical acclaim. People loved […]
