Last year, in our post-turkey bloat, we grabbed the remote and settled into something we rarely do. We vegged in front of the boob-tube. Immediately we felt bombarded.
The blaring onslaught of Black Friday ads was funny at first, but after an hour or so, being yelled at to BUY! BUY! BUY! the commercials didn’t seem so funny anymore…
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Last year, in our post-turkey bloat, we grabbed the remote and settled into something we rarely do. We vegged in front of the boob-tube. Immediately we felt bombarded.
The blaring onslaught of Black Friday ads was funny at first, but after an hour or so, being yelled at to BUY! BUY! BUY! the commercials didn’t seem so funny anymore…
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The Diary of a Young Girl was the first coming-of-age story I’d ever read.
And it hit me hard for a number of reasons.
So, Anne Frank House was at the very top of my list of places to visit when we arrived in Amsterdam.
The house is the actual building where the Anne and her family — and four others — hid before they were betrayed and captured by the Nazis… CONTINUE READING >>
The Diary of a Young Girl was the first coming-of-age story I’d ever read.
And it hit me hard for a number of reasons.
So, Anne Frank House was at the very top of my list of places to visit when we arrived in Amsterdam.
The house is the actual building where the Anne and her family — and four others — hid before they were betrayed and captured by the Nazis… CONTINUE READING >>
The last task of raising a child is letting them go.
Allowing them to flap their cute little wings and fly… giving them a gentle nudge out of the nest to get them airborne.
OK, sometimes it’s more like a hard shove off a cliff… but then the harder transition from the parent-child to an adult-to-adult relationship must be made.
This process doesn’t happen overnight… CONTINUE READING >>
The last task of raising a child is letting them go.
Allowing them to flap their cute little wings and fly… giving them a gentle nudge out of the nest to get them airborne.
OK, sometimes it’s more like a hard shove off a cliff… but then the harder transition from the parent-child to an adult-to-adult relationship must be made.
This process doesn’t happen overnight… CONTINUE READING >>
For those of us who grew up in the “eat your vegetables, there are starving kids in China” era, visiting Beijing really seemed like a trip into a forbidden city. Back then the city was known… CONTINUE READING >>
For those of us who grew up in the “eat your vegetables, there are starving kids in China” era, visiting Beijing really seemed like a trip into a forbidden city. Back then the city was known… CONTINUE READING >>
We looked up the many definitions of “twerp” – including some seriously weird ones – trying to find how this fabulous city got its name.
Turns out the weirdest definition by far is the answer!
Join us in the land of severed hands, giants, odd stone lions, and incredible beer… CONTINUE READING >>
We looked up the many definitions of “twerp” – including some seriously weird ones – trying to find how this fabulous city got its name.
Turns out the weirdest definition by far is the answer!
Join us in the land of severed hands, giants, odd stone lions, and incredible beer… CONTINUE READING >>
