by spencer | Dec 31, 2018 | Entertainment
20+ Things that were Rad in 2018 A two-centimeter lump of cancer certainly threw the second half of the year for a loop (and will likely dominate the first half of 2019), but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t also a lot of cool stuff in 2018. Here are some of my favorite...
by spencer | Dec 20, 2018 | Family
The Boy Who Refuses to Sing Curtis is not a fan of the limelight. When he was a Sunbeam, every kid had a part in the program. One by one, they walked to the microphone and said their line. Not Curtis. He walked up to the microphone, turned his back to the crowd, and...
by spencer | Dec 16, 2018 | Family
Bath Bomb EXPLOSION! My love of the bathtub — or the tubby, as I like to call it — goes back decades. Prop up an iPad and a bluetooth speaker and there’s no better place to watch Monday Night Football, the World Series, or dozens of episodes of your favorite Dutch...
by spencer | Nov 24, 2018 | Family
Fair-Weather Fan in Unfair Weather Curtis is the epitome of a fair-weather fan. Curtis is the epitome of a fair-weather fan. (If his team starts losing, he’ll start cheering against them immediately.) And that’s when the weather itself is fair. Traci’s dad offered me...
by spencer | Oct 31, 2018 | Family
This is Halloween Another successful Halloween for the Sutherlands. Paige Halloween can be weird when you’re a seventh grader. Is it weird if you wear a costume to school? Is it weirder if you don’t? Is it cool to go trick or treating? Or is that totally lame? I’m not...
