Family
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Weekend Wanderer: No Turbulence for Me, Thanks
Twenty years ago, I was flying from Denver to Telluride, Colorado. It was a small plane. Buddy Holly planes, I call them. I could see straight into the cockpit. Flight attendants and beverage service would have been laughable on such a minuscule plane. Instead, the pilots conducted the safety briefing. “If you see us screaming,”…
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Unleash Your Child’s Imagination at Quakertown’s Newest Indoor Play Space
My Size City, an indoor play space designed to ignite children’s imaginations and creativity has recently opened it’s doors for children and families enjoy! Located conveniently on 309 in the Country Square Shopping Center in Quakertown, My Size City is not just your average play zone—it’s a miniature town built for endless adventures and exploration.…
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Family Fun-Filled Weekend: Bucks County’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Lowe’s Workshop, Howell Living History Farm and More!
Local Kid-Friendly Activities To Enjoy From March 15-17 This weekend is officially the last hurrah of winter! It is time to put away the snow boots and dust off the bicycles to get ready for exploring our beautiful area this Spring. But, before preparing for the new season, take time to explore local family fun…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Dangers of Nominated Films
I had two days until I left to visit my daughter’s college in Florida. It was time to prepare. As in, time to watch Alligator and Society of the Snow. I don’t know why I do these things. Alligator, I think, is self-explanatory. An oversized alligator terrorizes a Missouri town. Released in 1980, it stars…
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Manor College Student Talks On Palestine, Becoming a Teacher and How a First-Generation Scholarship Helped Her
Amani Kayed cringes when people ask the Palestinian college student if she has any family in Gaza. While she has grandparents that live in the West Bank, her frustration lies in the way the question is asked. “The way the question is posed, it makes it seem like everything there is OK if you don’t…
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Weekend Wanderer: Heavy Is the Head That Watches ‘The Crown’
It’s time to put a period on The Dork Series. Or an apostrophe, am I right, guys? An apostrophe! Ahem. Anyway. I have spent most of the last month taking classes on the Tudor monarchy. One lecture was called — I’m not making this up — “Dressing like a Queen: Elizabeth I’s Wardrobe and Her…
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Weekend Wanderer: A New Book and My Secret Passion
I’m calling these last few weeks of columns The Dork Series. Apostrophe love. Bad dancing. If I told you about the history courses I’ve taken recently, you’d probably give me a wedgie and dunk my head in a toilet. So yeah. Let’s make it worse. A year ago, when Burt Bacharach died, I confessed my…
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The New York Post: Shaq to Jason Kelce — ‘Enjoy Your Family’
As Jason Kelce continues to mull his retirement, words of advice were recently passed down from Basketball Hall of Famer Shaq to Jason Kelce: Don’t make the “dumbass mistakes” that cost him his family, writes Justin Tasch for The New York Post. Shaquille O’Neil gave his warning while talking recently with Kelce on his podcast,…
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Philadelphia Metro Tops the Charts for Highest Cost of Living in Pennsylvania
While the average cost of living for a family of four in Pennsylvania comes in at $87,500, if you live in the Philadelphia metro area, you will need to make significantly more than that, writes Ashley Adams for The Keystone. The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator measured the income a family needs to have…
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WSJ: Why Eastern State Penitentiary Became a Popular Wedding Venue in Philadelphia
In 2021, Christina Spence and her husband Ricky Scalia eloped and got married at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia and it had to do with the fact that Spence wanted to have a simple wedding, writes Joel Millman for The Wall Street Journal. “My cousin got married in a castle. We wanted to have a…
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Weekend Wanderer: I’m Here to Preserve the Apostrophe
It all started with an article in The Guardian. The headline read “Hampshire villagers bring street’s apostrophe catastrophe to a full stop.” I clicked on that article. Oh yes, I did. Because of all the ills in the world, of all the daily nuisances, my pet peeve is the absent or incorrectly used apostrophe. Now,…
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This Local Couple Has A 50-Plus Year Love Story, and It All Started With an Ad and a Computer
The concept of dating through the use of a computer didn’t really catch on for most of society until around the 1990s, but one Philadelphia couple can thank the advent of the computer for helping jumpstart their relationship in 1965. That year, Shelly Beaser (then Bronstein), from Broomall, was a sophomore and commuter student at…
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Weekend Wanderer: Will I Ever Be Cool?
I’ve been up to something on Sunday mornings. Besides, you know, bombarding you with words. It began two months ago. But its roots go back to Halloween. Specifically, Shyamaween. As a horror movie fan, I seized the opportunity to be under the same roof as M. Night Shyamalan. Wait. Sorry. I mean I seized the…
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Weekend Wanderer: I Tried Cupping
I want to talk to you about cupping. Relax. It’s not a sex thing. I think my editors would shut that down faster than January’s snow melted. And it’s probably time I told you one of my editors is my godfather. Which did not get me this job. As my godfather, he is obligated by…
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Weekend Wanderer: The End of Tax Season … for Now
The tax return saga hurtles on. Working with Willie, I was finally — gloriously, spectacularly — able to access her online IRS account. And discovered Willie was, um, right. Wow. That was painful to say. She had — as she told me repeatedly — filed a tax return in 2018. I was thrilled. Not as…
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Weekend Wanderer: No, the Taxes Still Aren’t Filed
When we left Willie, she hadn’t filed tax returns since 2017. Willie and I tried — with an utter lack of success — to access Willie’s IRS account online. In an article from The Washington Post, an elder law attorney explained that accessing financial accounts of elderly parents is a federal crime unless you have…
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Doylestown Native Pink Celebrates Wedding Anniversary by Sharing Rare Photos with Husband Carey Hart
Doylestown native Pink celebrated her 18th wedding anniversary by sharing several photos of her and her husband Carey Hart, writes Annie O’Sullivan for Cosmopolitan. The gallery features pictures from when the pair first met, their Costa Rica wedding in 2006, red carpet photos, and more recent photographs with their two children, twelve-year-old Willow and six-year-old…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Ides of January
So I had sorted through Willie’s papers and the most recent tax return I could find was from 2017. The documents I’d located were a patchwork of W2s and 1099s. Social security W2s for both Indy and Willie from 2021? Check. Social security W2s for both Indy and Willie from 2018? Not so much. I…
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