or on an five hour cross country flight.

All I gotta say about the dad is that...

We totally are! Your post made my morning happy. Those driving gloves are super cool. I really should wear something like that. I'm ashamed to admit that my hands look pretty awful. I do, however, wear long sleeves everyday in the heat of the summer. I LOVE Coolibar! FYI, their customer service is great. I ordered a…

For realz ya'll, I would totally wear this. I use Tazorac daily and spend a lot of time riding my bike through Chicago. And I am very fair skinned and spent way too much time in the Florida sunshine as a youngin. I am fiercely protective of my skin. I wear a hat and sunscreen everyday but even those two things are not…

YEP! I have about fifty pairs of these. They are sold at both Kohl's and Macy's and can be found fairly inexpensively. The Maidenform websites frequently has sales too where you can buy them even cheaper, just cannot be picky about the patterns. I have various sizes from medium to XL and right this moment I'm wearing…

Oh hell yes, I know all of those. When I Hear Music and Lookout Weekend were the anthems at my roller skating rink in Mount Dora, Florida. I am not to proud to admit that one of my favorite albums of all time is So So Def Bass All Stars Volume II. I had Freak It by Lathun on repeat forever. I was also really into the…

No, I grew up in Orlando. It was 102 Jamz for me. But I know that the Miami scene was really the Orlando scene since Orlando didn't have and still has nothing original. Those were the damn days, right? I moved to Chicago about ten years ago and my friends here are all surprised at my blackness. ha! I'm from the Dirty…

WGCI here in Chicago plays a few slow jams now and then, mostly famously Birthday Sex and Neighbors Know My Name. Man, how I love Can You Stand the Rain. Brilliant song.

Are you even old enough to remember the spectacular slow jamz of the nineties? I have fond memories of being on a bus with my basketball team singing all the slow jam hits of the time. Jodeci was everything! The nineties were a pretty good time in Florida for hip hop too. The first song that will be played at my…

Ain't that the truth? And the horrifying reality is that it's only getting worse, far worse.

I don't know - perhaps it's because of my own upbringing - but I think it's terribly important for children to see that their parents have lives outside of parenthood. Both my parents worked. My mom had a very long commute as a teacher and it just wasn't possible for her to be at any of my school functions during…

As others have mentioned, the key to happiness seems to be choice. In a huge and life altering way.