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He was asleep when we saw these

The last time I went to the zoo, Ollie was riding around inside me. It was so hot, I took shelter in the air-conditioned gift shop, a place I normally avoid. Kids and gift shops need validation from each other. One needs tacky personalized souvenir license plates. The other needs allowance money.

Yesterday, we […]

Season of Light

I’m not much of a cold-weather person. My kids would say it’s because I was born in June. They theorize the season you’re born in is the season you love the most. Hot weather babes love being cooked in high summer heat. Cold weather babies are exhilarated by being slightly frozen.

They are wrong, […]

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold

Once a year, it’s our custom to strap ourselves and our kids into iffy metal contraptions that fling them around in all directions. It’s totally legal, too. One of the beauties of amusement parks and rides is they allow people step out of the ordinary hum-drum—to leave the ground under the mercy of engineers and […]