My late morning tossing and turning ritual that has become waaaaaay too commonplace, together with the faulty-snowblower snoring pattern of my wife, conspired to prop open my eyes at the ungodly hour of 5:30 AM on Saturday. In a pre-dawn haze of sleepy eyes and weary thoughts, I saw a […]
Have you been into a Trader Joe’s store recently? It’s as if a pumpkin patch exploded in there, coating the store’s decorations, the product packaging and the foods themselves in an autumnal hue. I think everything save for the eggs has a new pumpkin spice-flavored alternative on the shelf at […]
Happy autumn, everyone! Here’s the playlist for the October 2016 episode of the OWTK podcast. This month we’re sponsored by Clorox and, specifically, the Clorox C2 Stain Removal Pens which help me keep my messy youngest daughter’s expensive new clothes spotless. Three cheers for that! Without further delay, here’s what […]
We don’t have many nautical miles under our belt but we know enough to say that Caribbean ports are generally easier to navigate on foot than European ones. I’m sure there’s a logical reason for that, namely that you will be greeted by sleepy beaches and/or walkable beach towns vs. […]
I’m not going to insult parents of young children who say that the lack of sleep and the diaper years are difficult, they can be indeed, or try to convince anyone that toddler tantrums are a joyous experience, they’re absolutely not, but you’re not really in the weeds as a […]
It might seem to a casual observer, someone who had once, at some point before this past mid-August, stepped foot in, peered around the corner at, or passed through my kitchen, that all that’s different now is the position of the island and the presence of two Ikea bar stools […]
We had scheduled one final soirée in London. It was to be the night before we would make the transatlantic journey through the air to get back home after three weeks abroad. It was one last chance to live it up together in London town. Much had happened since we […]
My wife hit a couple of balls out of the park during our U.K. road trip, most notably a gem of a restaurant find in Liverpool and the recommendation to visit Bodiam Castle on our 2nd to last day in England. Why was a visit to Bodiam Castle a home […]
