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This post is in partnership with Education.com to help combat the “summer slide” many kids experience between grades. Here is one activity you can do at home that is fun as well as providing an educational opportunity. You can find many more activities at Education.com. Croquet is a great game for improving hand-eye coordination….
The Family Forest Festival is coming and this year it is expanding to three locations. What is the Family Forest Festival? That was the question I had when I first heard about it. Apparently it started last year in Oregon as a way for families to get together outside. This year it is being held…
As a present to myself I cashed in some of my Best Buy certificates and picked up the 5th anniversary edition of The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Sure, I have the album on vinyl, and on CD in both the stereo and mono box sets, so I really didn’t need to pick…
This is sort of a follow-up to my post a month ago about my attending City Cycle Seattle for spin classes. And not. In a way. It is also about smoke alarms. Let me explain. Sort of. Well, I have been going regularly to the 5:30 am classes and it is a challenge. Sure, getting…
There are a few thoughts that enter my head as I rewatch Bambi for the first time in years, the first of which is wondering why the name is often associated with women but the character of Bambi is male. Another is just how little “story” there actually is here. I say this not as…
I have touched on the music of Bauhaus and Love And Rockets before, but one band that also shares band members with the other two I have not yet talked about – Tones On Tail. Guitarist Daniel Ash and drummer Kevin Haskins went from Bauhaus to Tones On Tail with another bass player, then reformed with…
I know I’m running late with these last two announcements, but as I have mentioned before, I have been a bit busy. First, a free (with gate admission) show is taking place on September 4 that celebrates the music of the region with Heart by Heart, The Spazmatics and Randy Hansen. Locals know Randy Hansen as the…
I have been a vocal proponent of the Mariners Kid’s Club for years. It has been a good deal and while almost every MLB team has some form of Kids Club the Mariners have had one of the best. Last year the addition of the a free version it felt unnecessary, but I understand the…
Last year, sort of out of the blue, the Cheerios Challenge was born. For those not aware it was simply stacking individual Cheerios on a sleeping baby and taking a picture of the result, seeing who could get the highest or most outrageous stack. This year things are different. The Cheerios Challenge is now an…
This is a gloriously difficult album to listen to. And part of what I like about it is that it is intentionally designed to be difficult. I can’t even post one of the tracks here as an example of what this album sounds like because each of the four tracks are 15 minutes in length….