Spring Break Memories
Santa Cruz, Half Moon Bay, Lake Tahoe, and Yosemite… Today’s guest bartender for Happy Hour is Elle, a Twitter friend/part-time blogger from Northern California. [Raiders, baby!] Drinks are free for...
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Welcome to Happy Hour at Reed My Writing. My name is J.R. and this is my place. Thursday is my day off and I’m bringing in some great guest bartenders to run the place in my absence. Each month...
View ArticleHigh School Band Director Saves More Than 120 Lives
Quick thinking and even quicker action saved the lives of over 100 students and their chaperones. Mark Linn, the band director for the Parkway North Vikings marching band, from St. Louis, Missouri,...
View ArticleHelping My Wife Lean In
Scott Behson takes his own advice for two-career families. My wife just started a new show, leaving me to shoulder the load for a while so I can help her “Lean In” to her career. Four ways our family...
View ArticleA Good Feeling
On a beautiful spring day in Boston, Adam Olenn is reminded why he’s glad to be alive. Last week some motherfuckers set off a couple bombs in my city. They planted others, including a bad bit of...
View ArticleOne Way to Know Your Boy Is Home for Spring Break
There’s one area of the house where signs of a college boy’s return home are unmistakable. ___ Editor’s Note: Every college boy is different, but many have a particular behavior in common—raiding...
View ArticleThe 5 Stages of Parental Spring Break Grief
Spring Break, the cruelest prank the public schools system ever played on the average working American parent. – 1. Denial. It happens every year. The Friday before Spring Break starts, you say to...
View ArticleSpring Break, Young Men and a ‘Mad Roman Candle’
Michael Brennan remembers a crazy time and a crazier encounter. — I was, this past Easter weekend haunted by the Ghosts of Spring Break Past, and while ruminating over my many youthful misadventures I...
View ArticleHigh School Band Director Saves More Than 120 Lives
Quick thinking and even quicker action saved the lives of over 100 students and their chaperones. Mark Linn, the band director for the Parkway North Vikings marching band, from St. Louis, Missouri,...
View ArticleHelping My Wife Lean In
Scott Behson takes his own advice for two-career families. My wife just started a new show, leaving me to shoulder the load for a while so I can help her “Lean In” to her career. Four ways our family...
View ArticleA Good Feeling
On a beautiful spring day in Boston, Adam Olenn is reminded why he’s glad to be alive. Last week some motherfuckers set off a couple bombs in my city. They planted others, including a bad bit of...
View ArticleOne Way to Know Your Boy Is Home for Spring Break
There’s one area of the house where signs of a college boy’s return home are unmistakable. ___ Editor’s Note: Every college boy is different, but many have a particular behavior in common—raiding...
View ArticleThe 5 Stages of Parental Spring Break Grief
Spring Break, the cruelest prank the public schools system ever played on the average working American parent. – 1. Denial. It happens every year. The Friday before Spring Break starts, you say to...
View ArticleSpring Break, Young Men and a ‘Mad Roman Candle’
Michael Brennan remembers a crazy time and a crazier encounter. — I was, this past Easter weekend haunted by the Ghosts of Spring Break Past, and while ruminating over my many youthful misadventures I...
View ArticleSpring Break Memories
Santa Cruz, Half Moon Bay, Lake Tahoe, and Yosemite… Today’s guest bartender for Happy Hour is Elle, a Twitter friend/part-time blogger from Northern California. [Raiders, baby!] Drinks are free for...
View ArticleHigh School Band Director Saves More Than 120 Lives
Quick thinking and even quicker action saved the lives of over 100 students and their chaperones. Mark Linn, the band director for the Parkway North Vikings marching band, from St. Louis, Missouri,...
View ArticleHelping My Wife Lean In
Scott Behson takes his own advice for two-career families. My wife just started a new show, leaving me to shoulder the load for a while so I can help her “Lean In” to her career. Four ways our family...
View ArticleA Good Feeling
On a beautiful spring day in Boston, Adam Olenn is reminded why he’s glad to be alive. Last week some motherfuckers set off a couple bombs in my city. They planted others, including a bad bit of...
View ArticleOne Way to Know Your Boy Is Home for Spring Break
There’s one area of the house where signs of a college boy’s return home are unmistakable. ___ Editor’s Note: Every college boy is different, but many have a particular behavior in common—raiding...
View ArticleThe 5 Stages of Parental Spring Break Grief
Spring Break, the cruelest prank the public schools system ever played on the average working American parent. – 1. Denial. It happens every year. The Friday before Spring Break starts, you say to...
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