Explore iconic winter scenes and experience of snow-covered mountains, sledding, ice castles, evergreen trees, and more with this ultimate collection of Winter virtual field trips for kids. Where will your take a virtual field trip first this winter? Winter Virtual Field Trips for Kids There are so many amazing places to see and experience during the winter months throughout the world. Depending on where you live, sometimes you just may never have the chance to see it so here’s your chance with this Winter Virtual Field Trips. This collection of winter virtual tours highlights our national parks, winter sports, natural wonders of winter with frozen lakes, waterfalls, glaciers and MORE. You can track your virtual tours with our Printable Virtual Field...
Sex, as the poet George Michael once said, is natural. Sex is fun. Sex is best when it’s one-on-one. But things get complicated and a bit more stressful when you’re trying to conceive — or “TTC,” as some folks say. All of the scheduling, fertility tracking, and other efforts that going into trying to make a baby often often rob sex of its spontaneous excitement. The end result can look more like a stress-inducing chore than a burning primal desire.“[People get anxious] because they are absolutely fixated on the end result: a pregnancy,” notes Dr. Christine Milrod of Sex and Life Coaching. “Couples can change their mindset by understanding the human body, and that the more relaxed the attitude, the...
One of the most important things we can do with our kids is spend time with them, playing games and building projects together. Sharing experiences, especially ones where everyone discovers and learns, is the most rewarding thing we can do as parents. But more often than not, when the opportunity arises to spend time together, we don’t have a clue what to do, and everyone ends up watching TV (not always bad, but bad if it’s always what happens). Which is why, over the last ten years, we’ve been proud to bring you the GeekDad series of books, filled with fun, geeky projects and science experiments to do with your kids; everything from flying a video camera on balloons, to...
Welcome to the PleinAir Podcast with Eric Rhoads. In this episode Eric interviews movie director and plein air artist George Gallo, who takes us behind the scenes of his first movie, “Local Color.” They also discuss painting for yourself versus the market; plein air compared to studio painting; and how the act of painting informs his film work. “…If you persevere long enough…you only have to have a couple of breaks.” ~ George Gallo Bonus! In this week’s Art Marketing Minute, Eric Rhoads, author of Make More Money Selling Your Art, shares tips for finding (and creating) commission work, and feedback on if social media should be your sole avenue for promoting your art. Listen to the PleinAir Podcast with...
2020 has been the year to burn us out. If there was a dial to measure the ARGH levels, 2020 was the year to turn it up to 11. Recently, I created a reading nook with only the most relaxing books, comics, and music filled with the softest of plush toys on the plumpest of cushions. The pile getting the most use right now? My stack of relaxing comics. Come and check it out. Astro City, Vol.1: Life in the Big City by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson (Illustrator) During its initial publication in the 1990s, Astro City was the answer to all the dark-and-brooding superheroes from the 1980s. Busiek created a story filled with wonder and fresh ideas, designed to...
