by robert | Dec 21, 2005 | Article
Lala recently picked up a Mega Bloks castle at a yard sale and lugged it home for the kids to play with. Inside a box the size of a convection oven, a plastic sword and shield rested atop a pile of oversized bricks. London was immediately drawn to the inherent...
by robert | Dec 7, 2005 | Article
London’s friend was over the house the other day, and like every other time Calvin’s visited, he feels the need to build things. “Come on, Londy,” he’ll say in a pretend adult’s voice, stretching the bass tones of his unbroken vocal cords. Then he’ll throw...
by robert | Nov 7, 2005 | Article
For many years, my students’ favorite movie was The Usual Suspects. The film stars Kevin Spacey as a criminal with Phil Collins’ hair piece who spins one helluva yarn while being questioned by a slick Chazz Palminteri. Spacey uses physical details from the...
by robert | Oct 7, 2005 | Article
At the end of each summer, my father leaves febrile Florida to visit the multifaceted marketplace of Santa Fe. While he’s here, he acts like a crazy culture addict, catching the 6 a.m. shuttle to Indian Market in the morning, power walking through the Folk Art Museum...
by robert | Sep 7, 2005 | Article
London was on the threshold of a most glorious day by any young boy’s standards, or so we thought. Our afternoon plan was to attend a travelling carnival in the Villa Linda Mall parking lot and then scoot over to Toys R Us to buy London his first bicycle. His older...
