Hey there! If you've been following along, you know Mooney and I have been working on solving the CRV puzzle — how do you turn a Honda CRV into a comfortable, safe, functional travel setup for a large golden retriever? Well — we figured it out. At least for now. Here's what the finished solution looks like: Mooney gets the entire back seat area — bridged all the way across to the front seats with a custom-built platform. The key elements came together like this: Two custom storage containers...

Hey there! His name was Tizer — and he nearly destroyed our marriage. Not literally. But in 1987, when Stephen and I brought home our first golden retriever, we had absolutely no idea what we were doing. We tried confining him to the downstairs family room with a baby gate. He jumped it and chewed the vertical blinds. Every day we tried to move things out of his way. Every day he found something new. Then one day I came home to find my tube watercolors chewed up, paint smeared all over a...

Here's the thing — kids don't resist science. They resist boring science. That's exactly why I wrote the companion guide to The Secret of the Magic eyePadthe way I did. Every experiment connects to a moment in the story, a character choice, a problem worth solving. When kids care about what happens next, they want to ask questions, make predictions, and yes — even redo the experiment when their first try doesn't work out. Here's a peek at what makes this guide tick: Curiosity as a habit —...