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Keep Your Head Above Water: What to Expect When You Buy Your First Boat
— Summer is finally here, and with it — boat season! There really is nothing quite like spending the day out on the water with nothing but good food, good drinks and good company. Whether you want to...
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Father of Mine: Man, oh Man
Dads Throughout History Series – Part 6 A little bit more about me… In this six part series about fathers throughout history, I had wanted to provide profiles about heroic fathers. I wanted to examine...
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July 4. No Sermon. Just 14 Ways to Feel Better. Yes, a Real Holiday
This is the summer of our discontent. Easily the most critical moment for our country since… whenever. You know all that. No need to preach. What might be useful: tools for you to get more pleasure in...
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Family Vacation Survival Guide
Summer is officially upon us, and with it comes epic vacation plans sure to generate tales of your family’s (mis)adventures for years to come. After copious amounts of research, careful planning,...
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The Moment That is Summer
Did you grow up with a longing for summer? Even if you have no connection, as an adult, to the education system, summer can remind you what it was like to be a child, the celebration of the end of the...
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The Space Between
Time Lapse We had this joke growing up about the parmesan cheese in our family fridge. It was one of those green plastic Kraft containers, and I happened upon it once when looking to top a slice of...
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News Break
The Algorithms Between Us It was the summer of 1998, and I was interning at a radio news bureau in Washington, D.C. The Lewinsky Scandal broke that year, which eventually led to Bill Clinton’s...
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Buttered and Salty: Us
R, 1h 56m – Horror, Thriller Opens Today On the way to the press screening for director Jordan Peele’s new film “Us,” I experienced a rare (for me) nose bleed. An appropriate foreshadowing for a...
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Toy Review: Laser X Double Morph Blasters
I’ve reviewed six prior Laser X products. Some were target based games, others sported easy transport, improved range, & technical innovations. NSI International has out done themselves this time...
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Summer Is Coming! Here’s Why You Need to Protect Your Children’s Eyes
Langis Michaud, Université de Montréal Should we buy sunglasses for children? And if so, how do we choose a quality product? It’s a question that I get a lot in clinics. I reply that it is good to...
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Summer! So Where Do Really Interesting Vegetables Belong? At the Center of...
— Buy it on Amazon. How much water does it take to grow your favorite foods? Beef: 3 million gallons of water per ton. (Slaughtering and processing beef requires another 132 gallons of water per...
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Common Words
— Thankful for every summer breeze that graces me this hot July day A Haiku — What’s Next? Talk with others. Take action. We are proud of our SOCIAL INTEREST GROUPS—WEEKLY PHONE CALLS to discuss, gain...
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Nothing Wrong With Boredom
— My mom used to lock me outside. “A boy your age ought to be outside,” she’d say, slamming the door as I stumbled into the oppressive summer heat. She’d had enough, probably. Or maybe not enough of...
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#DaddingAThousand — The Boys of Summer
Back in Town 1. Forgetting your phone charger on your camping trip. 2. Letting them stay up a little bit later each night. 3. Mixing all the flavors to make Tiger’s Blood. 4. Saying yes to ice cream....
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Do Your Ears Hang Low?
— Photo credit: Laurie Buchanan Twice a day, every day, the ice cream truck slowly makes its way down our street. We can hear the distinctive sound of summer—ice cream truck music—approaching from the...
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Summer Scenes
— The warmth of the sun radiates on the house. A few fans and a curtain keep the heat from chasing me out of my home office. If I were to describe the current summer scenes, they would all contain...
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How Discontent Can Lead To Burnout
— Discontent. In walking around town and seeing people online and their social media posts, this summer seems to be the summer of discontent. Why? The weather from my vantage point has been decent. I...
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Another Summer Song
Through the fiery whispers of a golden southern summer A cool breeze slipped through an opened windowpane Chilling my last heart A noisy, shifting wind Cool as a starless night Cold as stone Cold as a...
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Midnight’s Other Side
Restraint has hollows; nothing’s like a melted torso. Lines have amplitude. And she comes in pieces, this Gift-giver, this woman from the other side of midnight, in trajectories, soft angles and...
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6 Tips To End Your Dating Dry Spell
By Alex Wise Summer is here and company for your sweaty, summer nights is a much needed staple of this blessed season’s successes. Even if Spring threw you for a loop, burying you beneath obligations,...
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