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My father, famous for his yard sales, wound up contacting a vintage toy dealer and got a pretty penny for my sets of wood blocks. While he didn’t exactly have my permission to sell them, I was happy to receive the stack of cash he got. Really, he should have sold them decades earlier when I used one as a weapon to give a childhood friend a concussion when I was three. Sell or burn the evidence, I say. Well, he did the former about 40 years too late, but we discovered that anything Playskool had become quite collectible. Teaching...

Spare tire. Muffin top. Love handles. It doesn’t matter what you call it; belly fat is undesirable any way you look at it. And getting rid of it? Far more difficult than adding to it, which seems totally unfair to me. Some days it seems like all I have to do is look at a cookie, and my pants get a little tighter. But, after a summer of hiding behind tankini tops and using shapewear to battle the bulge, reality has caught up with me. You see, I moved away from my home state some time ago and haven’t been...

  Tucker Cruise In is a meet-and-greet car show that takes place monthly on the second Saturday of the month, from April through October. It takes place along Main Street in Tucker. You’ll find  a wide variety of cars, including antiques, hot rods, motorcycles, imports, and more. The show begins at 11:00 a.m. on Cruise In days, and ends with an awards presentation around 2:00 p.m. The car shows are FREE to attend as a spectator. If you want to enter your vehicle for judging, you’ll pay a $5 registration fee. While you’re there, you can grab lunch at one...

If you’re wondering where the summer’s gone, we’re right there with you. But here’s the good news—it’s not over yet. Seattle is full up on festivals and fun for families this weekend. We can’t wait for: a seaside storytime, an on-ice experience for little Kraken fans and the return of everyone’s favorite kindie music star. photo: Morgen Schuler Seattle World Rhythm Festival Drum, dance, listen and learn at the 27th Annual World Rhythm Festival. The event features multi-cultural drum and dance performances and workshops for everyone, beginner to advanced. Scheduled acts include: Latin band Todo Es, Jazz/ Hip Hop band...

The back-to-school season is always bittersweet. Emotionally, it’s a tug-of-war between relief that the kids are returning to school, anguish that the summer is already over, and dread at the thought of having to get the kids out of the house on time every morning. Primal parents often feel torn on the issue of school lunches. On the one hand, we generally like to control what our kids eat. On the other hand, packing lunch every morning is a grind. By my count, I’ve packed somewhere north of 2,500 lunches since my eldest started school, and I only have two...