You may be the most hardcore of Disney aficionados but you probably don’t know about the Disney Dreamers Academy. The annual event brings together one hundred high school academic superstars and a gaggle of celebrities and inspirational speakers with the intention of propelling those fortunate young people into life like […]
This golf story needed a rewrite before the first sentence had been put down because even with the most radiant light there are shadows. Mine was a childhood spent in Payne Stewart style knickers (possibly the origin point of the Bogle cuff) walking upwind to avoid the long tail of […]
I’ve previously written about the sweet, sentimental greatness of certain musically-inclined papa’s singing about their children. Most notably, see Mr. Whirly’s “Mooshpie” music video. It’s a ditty I called the best parenting song ever. Here’s another lovely parenting song and music video from The Que Pastas. “Helen’s Song” is a […]
The well containing all of the knowledge we wish to pass on to our kids is bottomless. I reckon, in fact, that it goes on quite a bit further than that. Frankly, I’m not certain if there are fewer or more than one secret to raising great kids. Hell, I’ve […]
I have two brothers, 11 and 12 years my elder. As a child, the younger of the pair developed a musical inclination, an artistic skill that, to this day, no one in my family can properly trace the origins of, for we Bogles are not what you would call a […]
Photo of Claudio Ranieri from Leicester City’s Official Website Sometimes a child must stand face to face with boredom in order to find new ways to play with old things. This is part of a larger thought that came to me as I marveled at the accomplishments this season of […]
I rarely ever do this, but I’m cutting and pasting an email pitch I received because this idea is just so lovely and because it is written so well. There’s nothing to be gained by me re-engineering the following message. So here it is, an idea for us as families […]
It’s no secret that I’m my mother’s son. I embrace, never run from, the comparison made by those who know us both and I believe wholeheartedly that my dialed down version of her obsessive cleaning and homemaking self is a perfectly swell formula for an agreeable balance of order and […]
