Fun on Flight 1703 (The Zippy and Lippy Show or Dad Gone Wild!)
This past Christmas season my family and I traveled to New York City, (a favorite destination of ours–especially around Christmas). The trip was amazing–Central Park, The Grinch and A Color Purple on Broadway (go Fantasia!), pizza at Famous Ray’s (on 42nd St.), M&M’s superstore, breakfast in a diner with singing serving staff, and a number [...]
I Am in Dulles Airport on 9/11…Observing Parents and Others
I am sitting in Dulles Airport, in DC, on 9/11 after missing my return flight home. (Love them last minute gate changes that aren’t clearly communicated–I stepped away to browse books–must have been then.)
When I asked the woman at the gate what happened, she explained, I guess. It was in such a thick accent, [...]
Parents: Are You Good TV or Bad TV?
Last week, police officers in Trenton, New Jersey were called to the home of Evelyn DeLeon, after neighbors reported hearing a woman’s persistent cries of “Help me! Help me!” When police officers arrived, they kicked in the door to make the rescue…and found a caged pet cockatoo named Luna who had mastered a very convincing [...]
Parents: You Are What You Click…
It used to be said, “You are what you eat.” Bill Tancer , author of the new book, Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters. insists that nowadays, “You are what you click.”Tancer leads global research at Hitwise, an online market research company. His job is basically that of [...]
Parents: The Ticking Crocodile Chases Each of Us
Not long ago I was enjoying lunch at a local favorite Mexican restaurant of mine here in Orlando (Tijuana Flats). At the table next to me was a dad in his thirties, sitting with his daughter–a young girl of six or seven. She was wearing a nice blue-flowered dress, had a ribbon in her hair–she [...]
Caring About What People Think: The Hat, The Car, The Suit, The House
My Dad [...]