Musing of the Moment: Cocktails A-Go-Go or Boozemobile.

As a parent of travel baseball, there a many times when you ponder how you could make the experience of watching your son play even better. 

During the summer, kids used to have ice cream trucks. I guess they still might be around, but they aren't in my little village in east central Illinois. 

What I propose is creating a traveling cocktail bar that frequents baseball tournaments like an Ice Cream Truck. We'll call it Cocktails A-Go-Go or the Boozemobile (like the old school Bookmobile). 

Instead of having a song or jingle to get parents' attention, so they know it's around, the Boozemobile won't do a song or a jingle, it'll just have a girl or boy's boy saying, "Mom/Dad, do you have any money?"

Stay Positive: The Bookmobile

I belong to a group on FB called "You Might Be From Waterloo/Cedar Falls If You Remember." Today someone had a post about remembering the library's Bookmobile. 

That photo is an older one, but I fondly remember the Bookmobile. One day a week it would park at a strip mall a block from my house, and my mom or dad would take me to it. 

I thought it was so great -- a bus full of books that traveled around the city delivering knowledge. From my perspective now, I really admire how my mom got me hooked on reading at an early age and supported me. Not enough kids have parents who do that kind of work. 

And I'm trying to pass on my mom's practices to my kids.