One of the differentiators between the American Girl dolls and others has always been their stories. Â The dolls, from Kaya the Native American to Rebecca [...]
I shot a 5 and a half minute video of my family vacation at Disneyland in California, or rather, just a bit of the vacation. Here’s the clip:
My thought when I did this was, “video should be fun, simple, and not exactly a complete capture of every moment of the vacation.” We had two [...]
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(NOTE: The following article first appeared last September on my personal blog, Sassholes! It was this post about my daughter’s 17th birthday that [...]
We went to the doctor the other day for my daughter Lucy’s nine-month checkup. It included a smorgasbord of shots.
And I got to hold her [...]
When most people think of Dolly Parton they think of her flash Country persona, her anatomy (sorry, but it’s true), her starring in Nine to [...]
Heritage is a powerful word. In its truest sense it implies all the things we are made of and all the things that make us [...]
From everything I have seen and heard, being a grandparent is a special thrill. Â I am not there yet myself, but as my own kids [...]
Sunday was National GrandParents Day. It was started in 1978 so this little known holiday has been around for over 30 years. Even though we’re [...]
I have never written about my experiences on September 11th. At the time I was working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the Urban [...]
Nature and nurture are in a never ending battle to claim the disposition of our children. While it’s true that the apple rarely tumbles too far from the tree, it is also true that there are a multitude of things we as parents can do to safeguard the childhoods of our children, limit their exposure [...]
Summer is winding down, the kids are back in school, and the long, bleak, football hiatus is almost over. If you’re a fantasy football nut, [...]
The circumstances of your life … how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home … That’s no excuse for not trying.
Everyone has family secrets…things that all the relatives know, but are better left unsaid outside the family circle. The worse family secrets are the ones [...]
I’ve always held onto my boyhood dreams of rocket jet packs and flying cars. I read the old pulp magazines when I could, devoured paperbacks [...]
Being a parent is no easy trick. There’s no guidebook or instruction manual (okay, there are plenty on sale, but you can bet none are [...]
The winners of the “I’m a Bus” give-away that was announced in the Buck Daddy book review on 8/10/2009 are as follows:
Susan
Mayer
Debbie
Howell
Christina
Smith
Heather
Gude
Susan Mayer is the [...]
As parents, one of our jobs is to prepare our children for the future so we do our best to teach them how to be [...]
