We moved to Vermont in 2016, when the boys were four. We had four wonderful years in Delaware and Maryland exploring beaches, woods. We went to DC, Philly and spent hours and hours at libraries. The kids tried boardwalk fries and soft serve ice cream. Pretty much the best way a kid can spend four…
Category: NonFiction
Your Best Parenting Age
As a parent, you’ll learn you have a parenting sweet spot. A year in your child’s life where you feel like you’re made for parenting. Like a 3-point specialist in the NBA, every shot you take goes nothing but net. Could it be the first year of your child’s life? Sure. For me, it was…
The Anti-Blockbuster
With Captain Marvel this weekend and a mix of other Marvel, DC and blockbuster films heading our way this summer it’s a good time to remember that the film and tv screens are the same sizes no matter what’s showing on it. I personally love small films that feel familiar and don’t always have the…
The Hidden Netflix Links all Parents Need
Netflix Hidden Kid Categories: (Quick note: You can’t be logged in under a kid’s only account to get this to work) Netflix is tough to navigate and nearly impossible with two kids breathing down your neck with vastly different tastes. Fortunately, there’s help. Netflix divides its library into some 70,000 subcategories including many for…
New York World’s Fair – 1964
My father had stacks of slides around the house of which 99% are family pictures. They’re nice of course, but the gold is in the other 1%. Here is what would have been a roll of film taken at the 1964 World’s Fair held in New York. Flushing Meadows Queens to be exact. Please find…
Top Ten TV shows 2018
As I write this there are still 666 hours left in 2018. That’s enough time to learn a language or Stairway to Heaven on the ukelele. Also plenty of time for Netflix to covertly drop a cluster of shows, but I’m releasing my top ten list now. I’ll ignore the “Is Peak TV at its peak?”…