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...
by robert | Aug 7, 2005 | Article
Sometimes I think my son London was serially robbed in a past life. Unlike his sister Poppy who, at age four, would have given away half her possessions to her worst enemy, London guards all his gear like Montgomery Burns on his deathbed. If I ask London if he wants...
