Yesterday, my almost-fourteen-year-old son said, “Dad, let’s go see WHITE HOUSE DOWN, just you and me.” I’ve been raising kids for 37 years—I knew I wouldn’t hear that phrase again for a decade. So, despite the fact that I’d decided to skip that movie, I went. The movie is a winner! I was shocked at […]

“BRING IT!” is the challenge my daughter throws at her trash-talking competitors on the soccer field*. I thought it summed up Pia Sabel’s attitude pretty well, so I used it for this episode. After all, she challenges the bad guys in a big way—which might be a mistake this time. We’ve reached the halfway point, […]

Who won THE DOLL by Taylor Stevens? Well … My son declined doing another “masked man” winner-selection video due to a small amount of ridicule in middle school for his last endeavor. My daughter (sixteen, and oh-so-worldly) thinks the ‘whole thing is a dumb idea’ but her BFF, Caroline, said, “Let me pick!” (although she […]