From the monthly archives:

November 2011

Five Reasons to Take Your Kid to See College Sports

November 28, 2011

I’ll admit that I wasn’t much of a college sports enthusiast, other than my years in college and during March Madness. It was watching the amateurs, when I’d rather watch the pros. My feelings about college sports have been flipped upside down in recent year as I’ve started taking my kids to college games. I [...]

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Thanksgiving Orphans

November 23, 2011

Thanksgiving is almost here, and all around the country people are zipping up their suitcases, lining up at airports, or buckling their seatbelts and heading out to travel.  The ones who aren’t traveling are lining up at the supermarket, struggling with folding chairs and drop-leaf tables in the garage, or getting a head start on [...]

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Out and About for the Nov. 19 Weekend

November 18, 2011

Pour a thermos of hot cocoa, grab your ice skates and enjoy the Bay Area’s outdoor skating season. Rinks are opening up in San Francisco and San Jose, but Redwood City’s ice rink has a unique twist: the ice isn’t ice at all, but a synthetic imitation. It’s plastic polymer coated with a non-toxic lubricating [...]

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Christmas Card Conundrum (With a Giveaway!)

November 16, 2011

Oh man, it is that time of year again.  The time of year when I wander through stores and feel melancholy about it being the holidays. Where I curse Target for having all the Christmas stuff up the day after Halloween.  Even more so, the time of year when I start to stress about Christmas [...]

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The Age Old Question: Home Birthday Party or Venue Party?

November 14, 2011

We’ve had home birthday parties and parties at jumpy places, gymnastics places, swim places, a farm, and a movie theater. Some people prefer home birthday parties and some are kind of snooty about it, noting that venue places are so expensive. Venue places are easy, that is for sure: you walk in, sometimes with cupcakes, [...]

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Out and About for the Nov. 12 Weekend

November 11, 2011

Hit the trails and explore our national parks for free this weekend.  Veteran’s Day weekend is the last free weekend for national parks this year, which means it’s time to head north to Muir Woods. While you’re in Marin, stick around after dark for NatureBridge’s Headlands Institute‘s The Night’s Sky Family Hike and Campfire the [...]

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5th Annual Digital Citizenship Summit at Yahoo!

November 7, 2011

Even as a blogger immersed in technology, I find myself resistant to teaching technology to my 7 year old son.  Spending so much of my time online each day, I’ve been trying to preserve my son from becoming a technology-addict before his preteen years.  With kids in his second grade class already owning cell phones, [...]

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Burlingame Parents Encourage Science Through Fun

November 3, 2011

With all of the cutting edge inventions conceived in Silicon Valley, one has to assume innovation pours out of the kitchen sink like tap water.  It definitely seems like something’s fortifying the H2O in the households of Burlingame’s Washington Elementary School.  How else can one describe the amazing day of science organized and orchestrated by [...]

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Feliz Dia de los Muertos

November 1, 2011

My kids celebrate Dia de los Muertos at school, and we’ve come to really appreciate taking a day to remember loved ones who have passed. Plus, I am a sucker for Mexican folk art, and my kids must share an affinity because we’ve printed out reams of these Dia de los Muertos coloring pages. The [...]

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