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“Daddy, why do you only listen to singers with allergies?”My 6-year-old son Charlie posed this question about midway through “Over Everything,” the new single from indie rock darlings Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile. It was not the reaction I’d been anticipating. I’d carefully curated the playlist for our 20-minute commute to school, and I was pretty confident that I’d nailed the perfect mix of adult eclectic and kid-friendly. Apparently not.“I like his voice,” I said, defending Vile’s nasal drawl. “And I don’t only listen to singers with allergies. What does that even mean?”“That stuff you were playing the other day,”...

Hello Spring!  The thought of getting out of the winter slump and into some longer, warmer days is always welcomed when Spring comes.  And with Spring comes time to plan some of my favorite preschool spring activities! Want to see what spring themed activities make the cut? Check them out... 9 of our Favorite Spring Activities Painting with Dandelions - talk about a cheap and relatively available weed- the dandelion. Pull some of those yellow ones and use them as a paintbrush with paint. A super easy process art activity! Painting with Celery: After we do one of our favorite plant...

Mother's Day is coming soon, and you need some ideas - or some things for your kids to do? Well, how does free sound? The Night Before Mother's Day Happy Mother's Day-- Julia Ward Howe was the first to proclaim Mother's Day in 1870. Her Mother's Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908 when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in America. She then began a campaign to make Mother's Day a recognized holiday in the United States. Although...

They say two heads are better than one. But the “they” in question, clearly, didn’t have twins. When I announced my wife had a pair of boy-flavored buns in the oven, a friend in the know told me the first four years of twins are hell, but after that it’s great. Well, bearable. As I inch towards their fourth birthday, like a parched man crawling towards a desert oasis, I can categorically state my friend was right about the first part.One baby turns your life upside down – I know because we have an older daughter – but two at the...

Bucha was known as Ukraine’s Switzerland. Now it is synonymous with unimaginable horror. I first traveled to the town five years ago to film a documentary about the country’s struggle to build a democracy enshrined in human rights after the 2013–2014 Maidan revolution swept a Russian proxy from the presidency. My protagonist had fled war in the embattled east to rebuild her life in Bucha, a comfortable commuter exurb on the northwest perimeter of the capital, Kyiv. With its coffeehouses, organic cheese stores, and villas adjoining leafy parks, Bucha reminded me of the neighborhood where I grew up in Sydney, Australia. ...