Back when I was still knee-high to the grown folk and living with my mom, “Back East”, as us Californians call it, I spent the majority of my days playing “Dinosaurs” in an unforgettable forest of sorts, in a giant park called Providence. I’d cross the street from our apartment and descend the gravel path,(…)
“But what happened, Miss Simone? Specifically, what happened to your big eyes that quickly veil to hide the loneliness? To your voice that has so little tenderness, yet flows with your commitment to the battle of Life? What happened to you?”- Dr. Maya Angelou, Redbook Here’s what I knew about Nina Simone: I knew that(…)
Father’s Day has come and gone, again. All of that dad-centric attention that fills your TV screens with grill ads and sports car spots has settled back into business as usual and I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t a slight hangover effect from all of that focus on fathers. It’s a sharp drop(…)
There is awesome and then there is aweSOME, and then there is Mike Adamick’s Dad’s Book of Awesome Science Experiments, whereby awesome becomes an AWESOME understatement. Timelapse=60 Seconds Of Awesome! Experiment #7 ‘Colored Leaves’ When my daughters grow up they will be rocket scientists or astrophysicists or bioengineers. I have already decided. Of course they will(…)