by Brian Kurtz If you have daughters, you’ve likely seen by now that Mattel, the makers of Barbie, has introduced something new for their iconic doll: a more diverse selection of Barbie body types. Barbie’s origin story is as a mass-marketed adult-figured doll that broke the mold of infant dolls […]
Waiting until the airport was no small feat. My excitement to hand over the in the TMNT Turtle Shell case was matched only by her excitement to finally hold it in her hands. She immediately started to take photos, text her mother (who was sitting in the next chair over), […]
Do any of your people send out those year-end holiday newsletters in lieu of, or in addition to, Christmas cards? It’s a neat idea, it totally is, especially if you don’t spent your days lurking on their Facebook page. The downside to this kind of annual summary of key family […]
It’s less a discovery than it is a giving up of belief. My family is standing on the precipice of a strange new world, a world in which Santa is a fictional character and 100% of all gifts nestled neatly under the tree are dutifully purchased from local stores or […]
I had only been gone for two years but somehow managed to fall in love in that short period of time. When I returned to the nest, in desperate search of a free place to crash before beginning the next chapter of my young life, I wasn’t alone. After moving […]
It has come to my attention that I am more like jerky than previously believed, and not only because I’m sometimes a jerk. Anyway, that’d be WAY too obvious a joke. And that’s not my style. I should be clear here, before we go any further down this curious road: […]
My plan was to stroll around Epcot for a few hours during the annual Food and Wine Festival as a way of stepping out of a photographic comfort zone, for I love the idea of street photography but find it too debilitating to point my Samsung camera in the general […]
I recently found out about and I’m tickled pink that the brains behind this ingenious family tech device were interested in partnering with (and compensating) me to tell this story about a very modern new tool capable of quelling a very modern worry. All opinions expressed below are honest and […]
