Suburban Dad
What’s up for the weekend? Well, if you have a kid who does competitive swimming, this image should be familiar to you. If you’re not one of these, um, lucky...
Happy 15th Birthday Maya!
Well, almost every year since I’ve had this blog, I’ve been doing slideshow called “( ) Years of Monkey” — which is, of course, a slideshow about my daughter, Maya....
How We Read
Whenever I’m at the grocery store I do something that’s kind of old fashioned: I buy magazines. Yep. Magazines printed on glossy paper that have titles like Time, Bloomberg Businessweek,...
Wahkeena Falls
It was the 4th of July in Oregon, and according to my in-laws, pretty typical when it came to the weather. It was cold (mid- 60s), overcast, and rain was...
The Ying and Yang of Showers and Toilets in Hotels
I think we all have stories when we travel about things we like and things that are just perplexing. We’re staying at a Holiday Inn Express and while it’s a...