I’ve piloted a pair of minivans across the width of the country (Toyota Sienna, Kia Sedona), a Highlander up and down the Pacific NW and through the woods of Ohio, a Kia Niro on the Blue Ridge Parkway and from Orlando down to Miami for soccer and baseball and brunch […]
I know this stretch well. I’ve driven it on sunny Sunday mornings and foggy AF Tuesday afternoons too, as my two daughters merrily rolled along taking selfies in the 2nd and 3rd rows but also alone and lonely with a spinning head pushing dangerous thoughts with more passive-aggression than a […]
We’re one week away from the 2nd Kidchella all-ages music festival of the summer. Last month, The Pop Ups and Alex & The Kaleidoscope delighted nearly 800 adults and kids gathered on the cool green grass of the Smith Memorial Playground. Now it’s time for a couple of Kidchella vets […]
There’s been a one hour driving distance bubble encircling my immediately family for our entire lives. At the end of July, my oldest brother (the one recoiling with iPhone in hand in the photo above) will move 10 hours south. I could choose to be sad he’s fleeing the area. […]
I’ve known the 2018 Kidchella lineup for so many months now and it’s been killing me keeping it in!! But here we go, the poster and the podcast to officially announce the bands playing the 2018 Kidchella Summer Music Series at the Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse!!! Also awesome: my […]
Time zone confusion, a lack of sleep, vocal strain from too much mingling the day and night before, and a burning of the proverbial candle at both ends left my body a shiver, my head in a fog, and my voice this side of tatters. I didn’t always know where […]
It’s often described as a tightrope but that’s not terribly accurate; there is no risk of falling off either side. This period of life, the immeasurable, undefinable, delicate space between childhood and young adulthood, is more akin to finding yourself in the middle of a meadow. It can be peaceful […]
The Stinger Experience U.S. Tour Rolls On It sounds like the name of a stadium rock band, and maybe it should be, but for now the Stinger Experience is your best chance to put a 365 horsepower twin-turbo V6 Kia Stinger GT through the paces on a professionally designed road […]
