High above San Diego, perched precariously over the edge of the roof of a high tower, sits Fallen Star, a house that was designed to make you feel bad. And with the same impulse that leads us to actually smell whatever our friend has just told us stinks horribly, we knew we had to visit […]
Category Archives: Travel
If You Haven’t Seen a Polar Bear Playing With a Ball, You Haven’t Seen the San Diego Zoo
Did you know that bloggers sometimes get free passes to places? I know! Me neither! And by the time I realized this, the night before we left for San Diego, it was too late to contact anyone for any exclusive treatment. This was why, when we arrived at the ticket booth of the San Diego […]
Captain Hindsight’s Tips for International Travel
Hello citizens! Captain Hindsight here. Recently, the missus and I took the little hindsights on a trip across the border to Canada. Using my unique super powers, I now know many important travel tips that have come to me after the fact. And because I am a do-gooder, I will now share this important information […]
When Your Plans Are Interrupted, You Make New Plans
I never check the news when I am travelling. My normal routine is disrupted, I am busy doing exciting things, and so I often will come home to find out that there has been some sort of major event, natural disaster, celebrity death, or presidential election while I was away for the week and I […]
A Tale of Three Postcards – A Pre-Wedding Adventure
It wasn’t like I didn’t have enough time. Bleric Ack had mentioned to me, oh, four months earlier that they were thinking of replacing the traditional wedding guest book with a stack of postcards. The cool idea was that each guest would bring a postcard from where they were from, or from where they had […]
Roots and Wings; Boots and Swings
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other wings.” So said the inspirational poster hung somewhere in my childhood, the reading of which seemed so profound to me at the time, and the truth of which is clear to me only now. Suddenly, […]
What To Do When You Are On Vacation And Have Forgotten An Important Medication
This is not the first time that this has happened, but I sure do hope it will be the last. I left for a weekend in Maine without Edward’s medicine. My wife gave me a list, and I checked it twice. I packed everything on that list, triple checking the medications for the children. And […]
Tenor Single Dad
It is, as my mother-in-law likes to say any time we have parenting difficulties, payback. For years I spent a large amount of my time on the road, at auditions, rehearsals, voice lessons, shows, and who the heck knows what else. When my first child was born I was in graduate school, and the plan […]
A Life in Ornaments
As soon as my wife and I were married we decided on a few things. The first was that we were going to travel the world together and have amazing adventures. This kicked off immediately as we honeymooned in Mexico, Belize, and the Caymen Islands, thanks to a Carnival cruise. The second was that we […]
The Contract That Almost Was
I was sitting in my living room on Friday evening, going about my business and getting ready for dinner when I got a call from my agent. An opera company on the other side of the country needed a tenor, and they needed one fast. Their original tenor had died suddenly with no warning, and […]