It was called husky back then, but I was what I was: a fat boy who rarely saw the sun. Years before websites, blogs, and vanity url’s would become actual things, the furnished basement of my parents suburban home was my domain. And a Nintendo gaming system with a protruding […]
Have you ever wanted to experience the surreal sensation of having a real seahorse wrap itself around your finger? Yeah, me too. I’ve long been fascinated with the tiny ocean steed but had only observed their adorableness through 4″ thick aquarium glass until I visited the Ocean Rider Seahorse Farm […]
There were no photos staged or taken. No cutesy videos either. Not a single sight or sound constructed or reconstructed to share with the world. A tree goes boom, whether anyone is there to hear it fall or not. There was only my 7-year-old daughter and I righting a wrong […]
Preservation Hall is an unquestioned American music landmark, one that is still sending shivers up spines and creating memories for music lovers every single night of the week. Located in the heart of the famed French Quarter in New Orleans, steps from the beaded and bewildered Bourbon Street, Preservation Hall […]
Halloween is now only two weeks (plus a couple of days) away! Get your kids ready with this simple Halloween word mining activity on PBS Parents to keep their brains sharp ahead of the sugar buzz lurking like a ghoulish skeleton around the corner. My latest Adventures in Learning post […]
It’s got swagger. But of course you already knew that. It has style too, especially the higher-end variants and the knee-weakening Salsa Red Pearl exterior paint option. But here are six surprising features of, and unexpected uses for, the 2015 Toyota Sienna minivan. A Private Changing Suite The ’15 Sienna […]
That Tiffany song. You know the one. 6th grade. The first time I stood in close physical proximity to a female who didn’t birth me, and in a way that would’ve said, ‘hey there beautiful,’ if a chubby boy in a peach knit cardigan sweater and a regrettable volume of […]
