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...
by spencer | Oct 27, 2018 | Family
How far can I kick a football? “High school kids suck at football,” Curtis said. Apparently, now that he’s played one season of flag football, he’s an expert. His comment came after a kid missed a 35-yard field goal at the Dixie High game we went to last week. “I...
by spencer | Oct 20, 2018 | Family
Fall is Utah is fantastic. But it’s fickle. It can stay warm until November or turn into winter in October. Spring is equally unpredictable. It can start in February or hide until May. Winter can be mild or heavy but it’s always depressing. Summer’s...
by spencer | Oct 16, 2018 | Family, Music
Curtis, Tate, a Werewolf, and Your Mom I can’t remember how I first heard about Say Hi to Your Mom. It was probably in the early 2000s when I was downloading songs from Stereogum and Music For Robots on my work computer in the dark basement of Salt Lake Community...
