Breakfast is more exciting now that the ladybug larvae have moved into their terrarium, a terrarium delivered rather early by Santa’s Fed Ex elves. Things we won’t mention until much later: Several of the larvae made it to Mom’s poppyseed…
Bubble rings make perfect, inexpensive, pliable-plastic, unswallowable Christmas gifts, but how the hell do you get one into a stocking?
Every once in a while you see a product and say to yourself, “damn… I’m an idiot. Why didn’t I think of, develop, market, and sell this? I could have been rich. I could be playing golf in a warm…
One of the best things about the soon-to-be bankrupt U.S. mail is that its uneven service works wonders for spreading out your birthday gifts. If your birthday is… say… on the 15th, and you have friends and relatives that live…
D.O.B.: 11/23/2011 T.O.B.: 2:22pm W.A.B.: 5lbs 14oz L.A.B.: 19in
There are four contenders for your smartphone money right now if you’re on Verizon: Galaxy Nexus Motorola Droid Razr update… Droid Razr Maxx now available with a much larger, but still non-removable battery. HTC Rezound Apple iPhone 4S Really short…
Time to assemble: 5 hours, 23 minutes. Missing parts: honest instructions, 3 screws, 7 AAA batteries, 4 gin martinis, and 1 properly-sized allen wrench. Number of Chinese factory workers laughing their asses off at me: at least 1. Time until…
Straight outta Peabody… I’m a crazy monkeybaby name-a FreezPop From the gang called Toddlerz With Asugarhigh. If I’m yelled at, I musta stole a cookie cat. Dropped the box and made a mess; now where the dog at? Chorus
In order to get Hogan and me farther away from them, my parents are busy digging in, hammering on, and swearing about the soon-to-be finished basement. Actually, my father has few practical skills, so this project, in truth, is a…
Some race notes: Christian and Andy drank frosty drafts at the Great Lost Bear the night before the race, so technically they ran the “Ales to Trails to Ale” race. Andy was the only one of the three runners to…
Ultimately, you never know how your kid is going to turn out in the end, but it’s probably important to watch for signs of trouble and to at least try to put the young back on a better path when…
We are only about a week away from the long-awaited 10 Kilometer throwdown pitting Andy against both Christian “the turtle” Teter and Matt “helix pomatia” Hatem. This will be Andy’s first competitive race since he humiliated Hatem at the second…
Peabody toddler Abigail Moore admitted that she “actually hates” WGBH’s Cat in the Hat cartoon, but she continues to watch it on occasion because it’s more fun than “doing whatever her parents want her to do instead.” I legitimately like…
Dan Loring’s dream of seeing long-in-the-tooth reunion concerts by Def Leppard, Cinderella, and Warrant all in one glorious summer imploded early Friday as Warrant lead singer, Jani Lane, inconveniently gave up the ghost in a Woodland Hills Comfort Inn. Reached for…
Sometimes it’s difficult to be a toddler. You have short legs, you have limited funds, and you have trouble making your way through crowds on your own. “Perhaps my lazy father is right,” thought Abby. I had considered this very…
Peabody, MA – Trudi’s quick thinking halted a potentially violent toddler showdown at a local playground on Wednesday. Asked about her heroic actions, Trudi replied, “it came down to simple mathematics. There were three kids and two swings, so a…
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