Many cities have changed their zoning laws to allow more density and require less parking, and have invested in more sidewalks and bike paths. Suburbs could do it, too. If they wanted.
I live in an urban area where you can walk or bike. Yards are small, but plenty big to have a dog.…Â
If you stayed after school and needed a ride home, you would have to get into the massive line for the 1 landline phone in the hallway by the school office, and then hope a parent picked up the call.
You also carried around a quarter in case you got stranded somewhere, so you could…Â
I'm guessing that means Andrew Johnson, the successor to Lincoln. He was happy to let southern states take away many of the rights former slaves gained in the Civil War via New Black Codes that southern states passed in 1865 to 1866. It lead to his impeachment.
This ad was made in…Â
Judging parents based on nothing seems to be a hobby of a lot of non-parents.
I had a nonparent friend who thought parenting was easy - she babysat her nieces, after all. And then she babysat for an entire weekend: "You parent all day, and then get up the next morning and do it all…Â
Missing two of my favorite old Christmas movies: Shop Around the Corner and It Happened on 5th Avenue.
Young people today finding housing unavailable will appreciate the way that the postwar lack of housing is a major theme of It Happened on 5th Ave.
Shop Around the Corner has…Â
Restaurants with small kids was the worst. You don't really get to order what you want, because you're trying to make sure there is food the kids will eat. If you have to breastfeed the baby, you're guaranteed at least some nasty looks. You're on edge because there are so many kid…Â
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