The Story I Had to Tell
The corporate job gets the best of me some weeks. Family life has its own complexities, and it gets the
The Luggage Our Family of Five Actually Travels With
Handles snapped. Wheels wobbled. We stopped replacing bags every year when the whole family switched to Solgaard. Here is the honest review.
Nara: Deer, Bows, and the Biggest Buddha
Nara gave us wild deer that bow for crackers and a thousand-year-old bronze Buddha. The single day in Japan the kids will talk about the longest.
The AI Assistant Running Our Family Life
Between three kids’ calendars, a small business, and an inbox that never stops, I used to end most days feeling
I Wrote a Halloween Book for the Quiet Kids
Halloween at our house is loud. Costumes everywhere, candy negotiations, somebody always losing a shoe. I love all of it.
Long Flights With Kids: Our Playbook
Three kids, long-haul flights, and nobody crying in row 22. Our playbook for traveling far with Maddox, Kennedy, and Sawyer, built one meltdown at a time.
We Took Our Kids Inside an Earthquake (On Purpose)
There is a museum in Belém, a district of Lisbon, where you sit in a church pew and the ground
The Story Behind Tags: Small Bag. Big Journey.
I was sitting on a plane when a bag tag fell off someone’s bag. That is the whole origin story.
Parents Need to Escape Too: Our Backstreet Boys Weekend at the Sphere
Family trips are the best trips. But every parent needs a weekend that is just theirs. Ours was Backstreet Boys at the Sphere.
Japan Family Itinerary: 10 Days, Osaka to Tokyo
The exact shape of our 10 spring break days in Japan: Osaka first, then the bullet train to Tokyo. Universal Studios, Kyoto, Nara, Disney, teamLab. Copy the bases and the pacing.
