Every 4 Years…

Once every four years, we elect a new president, watch the Olympics, and experience the bewildering phenomena of Leap Year.   We have a family friend whose daughter was born on Feb 29th, and my kids love teasing her about how she is really only two years old. However, every four years, this kid gets […]

Presidential Pardons

The third Monday in February is when we typically celebrate President’s Day. In my experience, this holiday has been reduced to the following:   An excuse for retail locations to have a sale, An opportunity for teachers to force kids to write an essay on George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, and Yet another Monday everyone […]

Help Your Shelves

If your family is anything like mine, the holidays resulted in a lot of new books. GREAT. And also: NOT GREAT.   My whole family loves reading books. Real books. We all have e-Readers but tend to use them for things like working-out or taking on vacation. We are all old-school, holding books, smelling books, […]

Deck the Halls with Buddy Holly

Don’t you hate it when you’re singing along with a song, and you realize the artist got the words wrong? Often, I like the wrong version of the song better. According to the interwebs, misunderstood lyrics have their own special name: mondegreens.   In my family, misunderstood lyrics are genetic, and our kids sing the […]