There’s been waaaaaaay too much talk of bad dudes in the news lately. It all got me thinking about what goes into making a perfect person. Here’s something to offset the negative, if only a teensy weensy bit. Perfection is, in many cases, a surprisingly relative term. But not here. […]
We haven’t touched the Wii in nearly a year. Gamers we are not. Hey, this is exactly why I farmed out OWTK’s gaming coverage to a fella who is plugged in (well, not exactly, I guess, with all this fancy pants wireless technology nowadays), but you know what I mean. […]
If the allegations are true, and my god man do they seem to be, Jerry Sandusky is the worst type of man; the type who would willingly strip away everything good and pure in another human being. In a child. To deny a child a victim-free existence is the worst […]
Death and kidnapping; those are the biggies. And they each deserve whatever fear you allocate them. What I’m afraid of more day-to-day, and especially around this time of year, is the loss of innocence in my children and, more specifically, the moment they stop believing in Santa Claus. The ripe […]
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I generated some Twitter chatter this weekend with the OWTK review of the Learning Resources Smart Snacks Counting Cookies board game. One tweet kinda bemoaned the NEED to teach young children – ages 2, 3, 4 – how to count. But really, it could’ve been an essay on the divide […]
If you’re not already an avid consumer of The Moth podcast, I recommend you become one. The spoken word series offers a free weekly story that runs somewhere between 15-20 minutes long. They’re often funny and almost always interesting stories told by a myriad of known and unknown folks. For […]
